Re: Source code control

[Adam Megacz]

You really should check out darcs.  I did an extensive arch/darcs
comparison, and the XWT project (xwt.org) is going with the latter.
Vastly simpler than either bk or arch but with all the same features.

- a

[e-mail] (Eric W. Biederman) writes:
> This is just a heads up.  I have been doing some investigation
> into distributed version control systems.  arch looks like it
> usable and getting more usable.
> > From the design standpoint I don't see any big issues and
>
> it appears to be the equal of bk etc.  I think I see some
> was to make it simpler and more powerful but that is not needed to
> make a good revision control system.
>
> I need to do a little more testing to see what arch is actually like
> to use.  Before I seriously start advocating anything but I'm not
> expecting any weird issues to crop up.  Except possibly for some
> issues running under cygwin, for the platform challenged.
>
> Once my evaluation is finished I plan on pushing the projects I work
> on in that direction.  So this is something to think about.
>
> Eric
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Source code control

Adam Megacz  writes:
> You really should check out darcs.  I did an extensive arch/darcs
> comparison, and the XWT project (xwt.org) is going with the latter.
> Vastly simpler than either bk or arch but with all the same features.

I looked on the core mailing list and saw a version control discussion
but did not see your comparison.

As for features at least as of tla 1.1 I do not believe this to
be the case.  Feel free to prove me wrong.

It was mentioned in some of your discussion that darcs uses
reverse format patches.  I am leary of that because it was
exactly that ``optimization'' in RCS which made CVS suck at branches.

For myself I am branch happy.  And I don't think I like the idea of
having to create another copy of a repository to have a branch.  Besides
which darcs does not appear to have the merging capabilities that are
present in arch.

I will keep darcs in mind.  It always interesting to see another version
control system.

Eric