[Dart] anyone using Mercurial or Darcs?

[Mathieu Malaterre]

On 7/18/07, Brandon Van Every <bvanevery at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.

Hopefully Dan will read this mail too :)

> >   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.

Hum...In the end you are still commiting to some kind of CVS Head/SVN
trunk thing ? You only become productive once your bug fix/patch is
commited to the whole communitee, instead of your local copy.

The only good branches are the dead branches...

> > Ps: Anyone using Mercurial on top of a subversion system ?
>
> I don't understand what that means.  They're both version control systems.

I was thinking of something like hgsvn to mimic hg to please some
people while keep a *good* centralized system for the others :-P

-Mathieu