[wellylug] CVS woe

[Bruce Hoult]

On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 7:10 PM, Peter Lambrechtsen
<plambrechtsen at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 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

Hmm.  I've not had the pleasure yet, but both Mercurial and git
fanatics tell me that it's trivial to use the respective export and
import commands to transfer repositories between the two systems, so I
can't imagine hg to hg being worse.