[CMake] Re: Migration to subversion

[Mike Jackson]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XpnKHJAok8

Git - straight from Linus.. Kinda long but interesting.. as long as
you can get past Linus' personality.

Mike

On Jan 4, 2008 4:11 PM, Bryan O'Sullivan <bos at lindenlab.com> wrote:
> Alan W. Irwin wrote:
>
> > However, I admit to having no development experience with git or Mercurial.
> > Is there anything compelling (e.g., fewer bugs, better documentation, more
> > useful features aside from distributed?) about either over svn for
> > projects like CMake that use a centralized repo?
>
> A significant difference is completely offline operation.  With a
> centralised tool, by definition you can't commit if you're not on the
> network.  With a distributed tool, committing changes is decoupled from
> sharing them.
>
> As you surmise, you can agree to use a central repository with a
> distributed tool, but it's a matter of preference and convention, not
> something forced upon you by the tool designers.
>
>
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