Re: [Gnumed-devel] Re: using DVCS

[Karsten Hilbert]

On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 08:24:11PM +0100, Christoph Becker wrote:

> In the German journal c't there was an interesting article on mercurial  
> last year.
> A main source seems to have been the following book
> Bryan O’Sullivan, Distributed revision control with Mercurial:
> http://hgbook.red-bean.com/hgbook.pdf
> Mercuial (http://www.selenic.com/mercurial/wiki/) is open source. It is  
> written python for 95 % and for the rest in c.
>
> Here some citations from Bryan O’Sullivan's book

...

> Indeed, the Windows GUI-Support for Subversion with Tortoise ist great.  
> But what if you have more than one developer and one of them wants to  
> play around and work on the project in his vacation, while not having  
> any internet connection for many days? What if one developer likes to  
> work on the project at some nice place in the countryside or on a train,  
> where there is no cheep high speed internet connection? Then you do get  
> forks and a need for merging overlapping development. A distibuted  
> version control system seems to make life easier in such situations.

It does and in the not-too-distant future we really need to
switch to one of them. In terms for impact and
unlikelyhood-to-go-unmaintaned I would opt for GIT, maybe
via SVN.

So far we haven't had much of a need to coordinate much
parallel development yet the reason for which I doubt to lie
in CVS all by itself.

Karsten
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