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Re: distributed version control
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Rafael Laboissiere |
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Re: distributed version control |
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Wed, 16 Jan 2008 23:40:29 +0100 |
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* Thomas Weber <address@hidden> [2008-01-16 23:06]:
> Am Mittwoch, den 16.01.2008, 16:23 -0500 schrieb John W. Eaton:
> > Possibilities to consider are mercurial, git, bzr (and possibly
> > others). Does anyone on the list have experience with these tools?
>
> I currently use Mercurial, but have also use Git occasionally. One thing
> about Git: it's fast, even on large files (> 100 MB). However, I find
> its interface with the staging area ("index") unintuitive. Other people
> might disagree. Git is written in pure C, this might be a problem on
> Windows. But if things grow large, Git is definitely the tool.
I think this alone would make the point for using git instead of the others,
since Octave is a quite big project.
I am starting to use git now and know nothing about hg or bzr, at least not
enough to make comparisons among these systems. Anyway, git is gaining a
lot of momentum now.
> > We discussed Subversion in the past, but I'm not sure it is
> > sufficiently better than CVS to bother switching (if I'm wrong about
> > this, then please tell me whether Subversion can meet all the
> > requirements listed above).
Just for the fun, Linus Torvalds said in a talk about git at Google [1]:
"The slogan for Subversion for a while was: `CVS done right', or
something like that. If you start with that kind of slogan there is
nowhere you can go. There is no way to get CVS right."
[1] http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2199332044603874737
--
Rafael
Re: distributed version control,
Rafael Laboissiere <=
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- Re: distributed version control, John W. Eaton, 2008/01/17
- Re: distributed version control, tarmigan, 2008/01/17
- Re: distributed version control, tarmigan, 2008/01/18
- Re: distributed version control, John W. Eaton, 2008/01/18
- Re: distributed version control, Søren Hauberg, 2008/01/18