[Kde-scm-interest] distributed source control status

[Evgeniy Ivanov]

Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
> On Thursday 09 October 2008, Thomas Capricelli <orzel at freehackers.org> 
> wrote about 'Re: [Kde-scm-interest] distributed source control status':
>> On venerdì 10 ottobre 2008, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
>>> we need something to replace kdesvn, and the
>> This one is easy : whether on linux (hg view) or windows (tortoise hg),
>> mercurial comes with something that i find a lot more useful than kdesvn
>> (I use kdesvn for all my svn projects). See some screenshots here:
> 
> hg-tortise looks good, but 'hg view' looks a lot like QGit, which is not 
> completely the role kdesvn fits into.  While both 'hg view' and QGit are 
> nice tools, kdesvn can spawn editors for files, based on your KDE mime 
> association, reports the working-tree status (IMHO) more effectively, 
> provides (IMHO) easier or more intuitive access to commands that modify 
> the working tree or repository, and focuses less on the history, which 
> ends up making it more (IMHO) committer-orientented.
> 
> It needn't be a stand-alone application either.  A hg-tortise-like add-on 
> to dolphin or konqueror could fill the role of kdesvn.
> 

You might want to look on dvcs plugins from kdevplatform (vcs/dvcs
library, plugins/<dvcs-name>. Git is well supported IMHO (but QGit is
much better), Hg and Bzr have basic support.


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