[Dart] anyone using Mercurial or Darcs?

[Brandon Van Every]

On 7/18/07, Mathieu Malaterre <mathieu.malaterre at gmail.com> wrote:
> Brandon,
>
>   Have you made any progress in trying Mercurial out. Does it works
> well with Dart ?

Haven't tried it.  I asked to see if anyone else had been the "First
Penguin."  :-)  That is, the first one to jump into the icy water.  I
do notice that in the time since I asked, Perforce got added to Dart.

>   I am still a strong believer in centralized system vs decentralized
> but our sys admin seems to like all the 'kool' stuff of mercurial...

Decentralized version control isn't about 'kool', it's about increased
productivity amongst open source developers scattered across the
globe.  For Chicken Scheme we use Darcs, which is the same push / pull
paradigm as Mercurial.  The value of Darcs has been proven to us many
times.  Typically we can just keep working past each other on many
files that would otherwise collide, and Darcs just figures it out.
I'm inclined to regard version control systems that can't do that as
rather primitive.  Branching is similarly trivial, you just make
another repository.  Any differences between the repositories are
automatically figured out.

> Ps: Anyone using Mercurial on top of a subversion system ?

I don't understand what that means.  They're both version control systems.


Cheers,
Brandon Van Every