[Kde-scm-interest] Mercurial

[Pierre THIERRY]

Scribit Thomas Zander dies 04/10/2007 hora 07:44:
> In what turns out to be a killer feature (that I was missing from
> Darcs) git has the ability to switch to another branch without doing a
> new clone. This means I can switch branches without doing a full
> recompile

Mercurial too, of course. If a file is not modified when changing the
revision of the working copy, its timestamp is not altered, which means
even a dumb build tool like make won't trigger a recompilation of the
dependencies, and a smarter one like scons won't need to recalculate the
signature of the file.

> Pierre, have you tried git?

Not much. By the time I switched to a DVCS, I could have considered
using Git despite its not quite user-friendly interface, if it wasn't a
pain to install and use on Windows, because I work with people still on
that platform.

> I think that's essential to suggesting an alternative so you can state
> what is better or worse in the tool of your choice.

I think it wouldn't be honest for me to say anything else than what I
really know about Mercurial. I couldn't say anything on Git by just
trying it a bit. I can talk about Mercurial because I've used it for my
every day work since a year. And not only did I used it, but I explained
it to newcomers, so I'm confident on how quickly people can use it (in
my case, we used it in a coding party, where I did a crash course for it
at the beginning).

Experimentally,
Pierre
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