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

[Arne Babenhauserheide]

Am Sonntag 11 Januar 2009 03:58:19 schrieb Theodore Tso:
> The big difference though is that subversion's capabilities are a
> strict subset of Hg, *and* subversion is not a DSCM, where the client
> is substantially simpler than server.  In a DSCM, in practice the
> client *is* the server.  So that means bridging between two DSCM's is
> quite different from bridging from an DSCM and a centralized SCM like
> svn or CVS.

This isn't quite true. 

A DSCM can act as server or as client, but a bridge only needs to implement 
the client part. 

It isn't necessary to enable push-from-git-to-bridge, since you can use a 
standard git repository as push target and then just pull from that one via 
the bridge. 

Best wishes, 
Arne
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