[wellylug] CVS woe

[Peter Lambrechtsen]

On 3/04/2009, at 6:37 PM, Bruce Hoult <bruce at hoult.org> wrote:

> On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 4:30 PM, John Barstow <jbowtie at amathaine.com>  
> wrote:
>> Mercurial is very stable, well respected, good command line.  
>> Performance is
>> comparable to git and it's cross-platform. Will be learning it soon  
>> as
>> Python is switching to it. It's not under as heavy development as  
>> Bazaar or
>> Git, mainly because it's more mature.
>>
>> Git is the new hotness. It has the best performance, and a very  
>> large user
>> base. It has awful documentation, an idiosyncratic command-line,  
>> and is
>> Windows-unfriendly (parts of it are written in shell script!). It  
>> also
>> enables some extremely powerful workflows, and is the best choice  
>> for very
>> large projects. Lots of open source projects use it, including the  
>> Linux
>> kernel, KDE, and GNOME.
>
> Note that Mozilla uses Mercurial.  That's not a small project!!!
>

My main complaint with mercurial is the nasty database and version  
dependancies it has. Such as if your server runs a 0.59 db then you  
need to run 0.59 software otherwise you can have a 1-2 hour db  
migration if you upgrade the client software. Ugh had that with a  
project I was trying to checkout and couldn't get the client to  
compile due to other deps

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