Re: distributed version control

[Thomas Weber]

Am Mittwoch, den 16.01.2008, 23:40 +0100 schrieb Rafael Laboissiere:
> * 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.

Ehm, I should have made it clearer: I meant that there were *individual*
files that were > 100 MB.


> 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

Bah, yes. That's Linus as always. I mean, he invented it. How poor a
system would it be if he wasn't in favor of it?

        Thomas