Re: [Koha-devel] Reverting to previous versions in CVS

[Henri-Damien LAURENT]

Vincent Danjean a écrit :
> Mason James a écrit :
>   
>> ok, i just have to ask... :)
>>
>> why git over svn?
>>     
>
>   I think that svn is not very good in merging several branches together
> several times (even if it is better that CVS). svk can do that for one
> user, but not really for several.
>
>   A distributed SCM will be able to allow fork and merge of several
> branches (2.2, 3.0, test, test2, ...) taking care automatically of new
> things and things already imported from/into this branch.
>   However, as koha is a multi-plateform application, I would suggest to
> use mercurial[1] instead of git. It is written in python and can be
> installed on linux, *BSD, Solaris, Windows, ...
>
>   
>> fyi: i dont have any git knowledge/experience, except that chris said
>> its very differenct from cvs
>>     
>
>   Git and mercurial are very similar. But it's right they are different
> from centralized SCM (as CVS and SVN). To those that are interested, I
> would recommend to read :
> http://www.selenic.com/mercurial/wiki/index.cgi/UnderstandingMercurial
> and
> http://www.selenic.com/mercurial/wiki/index.cgi/Tutorial
> (the tutorial is available in english, french, spanish, chinese and
> japanese)
>
>   
>>>> Ahem ... we need a new revisioning system :-)
>>>>         
>>> Yes (git!), but not for this reason.
>>>       
>
> [1]: http://www.selenic.com/mercurial/wiki/index.cgi
>   
I don't have any experience in that.
But bazaar, monotone, Darcs are other distributed SCM.
Is there anyone around that experienced those softwares ?

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Henri-Damien LAURENT