On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 06:09:05PM +1100, Trent W. Buck wrote:
> > Maybe he was looking for an officially bundled one? I know git
> > bundles one (gitk -- if you can call it a GUI), but I don't think
> > hg, monotone, or SVK do... Any idea why this stands out as a darcs
> > issue but is not as big a deal for the other SCSs?
>
> Sometimes it seems like I'm the only person who *likes* keyboards and
> character-cell displays...
No no, I'm with you ;-)
For SCS GUIs: during the last years, I had to fight several serious
regressions introduced by those "user friendly" tools. Especially
the eclipse feature "override and commit" (available at least for
CVS and SVN) is completely retarted and dangerous. I told every new
developer joining our team that he MUST NOT USE OVERRIDE AND COMMIT
and that he better learned the command line interface of cvs or svn
or whatever system was in use.
And even with other graphical frontends, I've seen so many problems
(well, partly because of stupid developers) that I *always* get a
very bad feeling if I see someone committing changes with his mouse.
IMHO, the only real use case for a GUI is browsing, i.e. viewing
history, patches and annotations.
Ciao,
Ki "i take my scissors and cut your mouse cable" li
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