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Date:      Sat, 18 Sep 2010 14:17:27 +0300
From:      Ion-Mihai Tetcu <itetcu@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Dominic Fandrey <kamikaze@bsdforen.de>
Cc:        jhell@DataIX.net, perryh@pluto.rain.com, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: autoconf update
Message-ID:  <20100918141727.22a81b66@it.buh.tecnik93.com>
In-Reply-To: <4C94617B.3080702@bsdforen.de>
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On Sat, 18 Sep 2010 08:51:39 +0200
Dominic Fandrey <kamikaze@bsdforen.de> wrote:

> On 18/09/2010 01:13, perryh@pluto.rain.com wrote:
> > jhell <jhell@DataIX.net> wrote:
> >=20
> >> ... Mercurial being the distributed version control that it is
> >> allows you to clone, make the changes you need to the clone test it
> >> thoroughly and then either push or pull them to the main tree ...
> >=20
> > At the risk of starting the VCS variant of the vi vs emacs wars :)
> > why Mercurial (rather than, say, GIT or SVK)?
> >=20
> > And no, I have nothing against Mercurial.  I don't know _any_
> > distributed VCS well enough to have an opinion of which would
> > be best suited.
>=20
> There is great documentation and re-education material
> (for SVN users) out there for Mercurial.

I'm sure.
=20
> But this is not going to happen any way. The ports are still stuck
> with _CVS_.

I'm still to see a concise, clear, precise, listing of advantages that
switching from CVS would bring us, that would overcome the effort
needed to do it (committers, users, infrastructure, tools).


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