Promoting the use of Mercurial; was: Re: gnome dvcs survey results

[Isaac Jurado]

On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 2:10 PM, Theodore Tso <tytso at mit.edu> wrote:
>>
>> And, by the way, I think the Gnome comunity needs much more developer
>> pressure in order to migrate from SVN to a DVCS.  They have a couple
>> of uncovered workflow related issues in this regard.  Take the LLVM
>> people, for example.  They chose SVN instead of a DVCS on purpose,
>> because such a centralized model forced all their developers to be
>> more up to date.
>
> I'm not sure that argument makes much sense; no SCM forces developers
> to be up to date.  Whether you are using CVS, SVN, hg, bzr, git, or
> anything else, you can always development against an older point in
> history.  Some systems might make it artificially more difficult by
> having lousy branch support, I suppose, that's really not much of an
> argument.

My bad.  I confused "up to date" with "incremental development" from
this talk I wached some time ago (minute 15'):

    http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1921156852099786640&ei=p_1lSbe9GIL8igKzmqjECw

And, after a second thought.  Either branching or not, you have to merge
anyway.

> BTW, Mercurial really needs to add better support for renaming and
> deleting branches to best support this particular workflow...

You mean better support for renaming and delecting bookmarks, right?

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