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Ion-Mihai Tetcu
itetcu at FreeBSD.org
Sat Sep 18 11:17:29 UTC 2010
On Sat, 18 Sep 2010 08:51:39 +0200
Dominic Fandrey <kamikaze at bsdforen.de> wrote:
> On 18/09/2010 01:13, perryh at pluto.rain.com wrote:
> > jhell <jhell at DataIX.net> wrote:
> >
> >> ... 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 ...
> >
> > At the risk of starting the VCS variant of the vi vs emacs wars :)
> > why Mercurial (rather than, say, GIT or SVK)?
> >
> > 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.
>
> There is great documentation and re-education material
> (for SVN users) out there for Mercurial.
I'm sure.
> 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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