Re: [glob2-devel] changing glob2 cvs-repository to mercurial!

[Kai Antweiler]

> Knowing they have svn at savannah i wonder why we don't switch to it. isn't 
> that good enough?

Subversion was designed to improve cvs.
The newer version control programs were written to be good.
Subversion does not support decentralized development and
branching works, but is not standard way of use.
This is bad when you work in small groups.
Last year I worked together with nuage on our gradient system.
When I realized I had implemented a serious bug, I had to wait
about 8 hours until I had a chance to fix it.  With mercurial
or most other new system this would have been an issue only to
me and nuage.

Another good point is that you can work on a computer without
internet access (like a laptop when your in the waiting room of
your dentist).  You can work on different branches, fix bugs
in the official branch, work on your experimental branch, merge
the bugfixes in your expermental branch and upload everything
once you get home.


> another nice approach to my knowledge is git, isn't it?

Yes, but it's not supported on windows and MacOS as far as I know.


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Kai Antweiler