Comments on: Version Control Wish http://www.airs.com/blog/archives/222 Ian Lance Taylor Wed, 7 Jan 2009 03:12:14 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=1.5.2 Comment on Version Control Wish by: Ian Lance Taylor http://www.airs.com/blog/archives/222#comment-14598 Tue, 29 Jul 2008 06:07:49 +0000 http://www.airs.com/blog/archives/222#comment-14598 adis: As far as I can tell, Mercurial Queues are quilt for Mercurial. That's useful, but it's not what I'm after. That requires me to do a lot of the bookkeeping myself. ncm: I am skeptical that monotone can handle the gcc repository efficiently. I'd be happy to hear otherwise. adis: As far as I can tell, Mercurial Queues are quilt for Mercurial. That’s useful, but it’s not what I’m after. That requires me to do a lot of the bookkeeping myself.

ncm: I am skeptical that monotone can handle the gcc repository efficiently. I’d be happy to hear otherwise.

]]> Comment on Version Control Wish by: ncm http://www.airs.com/blog/archives/222#comment-14578 Sat, 26 Jul 2008 09:11:06 +0000 http://www.airs.com/blog/archives/222#comment-14578 You might get what you want from Monotone -- particularly if you provide patches yourself. Civility and rigor seem more characteristic of that project than some others, under Nathaniel Smith's leadership. You might get what you want from Monotone — particularly if you provide patches yourself. Civility and rigor seem more characteristic of that project than some others, under Nathaniel Smith’s leadership.

]]> Comment on Version Control Wish by: adis http://www.airs.com/blog/archives/222#comment-14576 Sat, 26 Jul 2008 03:20:59 +0000 http://www.airs.com/blog/archives/222#comment-14576 Maybe you can (ab)use Mercurial Queues for some of your wishes? With some proper commit hygiene, backporting patches should be fairly easy as well. Darcs "Theory of patches" is also an interesting read: http://darcs.net/manual/node8.html Maybe you can (ab)use Mercurial Queues for some of your wishes? With some proper commit hygiene, backporting patches should be fairly easy as well.

Darcs “Theory of patches” is also an interesting read: http://darcs.net/manual/node8.html

]]> Comment on Version Control Wish by: Ian Lance Taylor http://www.airs.com/blog/archives/222#comment-14569 Fri, 25 Jul 2008 14:43:31 +0000 http://www.airs.com/blog/archives/222#comment-14569 The two systems I've been hearing recommendations for are git and Mercurial. The two systems I’ve been hearing recommendations for are git and Mercurial.

]]> Comment on Version Control Wish by: rskrishnan http://www.airs.com/blog/archives/222#comment-14565 Fri, 25 Jul 2008 06:12:11 +0000 http://www.airs.com/blog/archives/222#comment-14565 Nice summary of "what I want from a VCS" !! Now if some of the vcs vendors would read, and more importantly _take this to heart_ life would be much better. I'm yet to see a VCS that will move a patch backwards that is on Re --> Rd (i.e. "backporting" a patch). Neither git, nor perforce, and surely never ClearCase seem to be able to deal with this sort of request well (specially if the delta between Rd and Re is non-trivial). With ClearCase ranking high on the "yuck" factor. I like git mostly for it's speed and "everything is local" mentality - makes disconnected operation much more pleasant. Nice summary of “what I want from a VCS” !! Now if some of the vcs vendors would read, and more importantly _take this to heart_ life would be much better.

I’m yet to see a VCS that will move a patch backwards that is on Re –> Rd (i.e. “backporting” a patch). Neither git, nor perforce, and surely never ClearCase seem to be able to deal with this sort of request well (specially if the delta between Rd and Re is non-trivial). With ClearCase ranking high on the “yuck” factor.
I like git mostly for it’s speed and “everything is local” mentality - makes disconnected operation much more pleasant.

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