Date: Sun, 5 Mar 2006 10:33:08 -0600 From: "Matthew D. Fuller" <fullermd@over-yonder.net> To: Stijn Hoop <stijn@win.tue.nl> Cc: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Subversion? (Re: HEADS UP: Importing csup into base) Message-ID: <20060305163308.GG17589@over-yonder.net> In-Reply-To: <20060305090129.GI46967@pcwin002.win.tue.nl> References: <20060304141957.14716.qmail@web32705.mail.mud.yahoo.com> <20060304152433.W61086@fledge.watson.org> <BA422F74-E7F9-4F53-9A88-B89E2255FF00@behanna.org> <20060304174835.GA58184@thened.net> <20060304194030.GA2826@tara.freenix.org> <20060304212423.GD46967@pcwin002.win.tue.nl> <sa6zmk593qd.wl%tamaru@myn.rcast.u-tokyo.ac.jp> <20060305090129.GI46967@pcwin002.win.tue.nl>
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On Sun, Mar 05, 2006 at 10:01:29AM +0100 I heard the voice of Stijn Hoop, and lo! it spake thus: > > I read Robert Ollivier's paper on distributed VCSs / Mercurial > yesterday and I like the thought of using a distributed VCS. Historically, I've felt that DVCS is a neat idea that would be really useful in, like, .01% of cases, but was just too annoying and complicated for the rest of the world. But I repented late last fall, when I was searching for a new VCS and SVN just struck too many thuds with me. And while I ended up in the Bazaar-NG camp instead of Mercurial, I've started using a DVCS for most of my new stuff that I would otherwise stick in CVS. It could get addictive. One big gripe I have with SVN is how the branches all end up in the same namespace. It's annoying, and it takes away some of the advantages of having tree-wide revision numbering. How bizarre is it to say "Yeah, I just committed revision 5837 to -CURRENT; to back it out, go to 5788."? Huh? Why isn't 5836 the step right before 5837?! -- Matthew Fuller (MF4839) | fullermd@over-yonder.net Systems/Network Administrator | http://www.over-yonder.net/~fullermd/ On the Internet, nobody can hear you scream.
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