Walter Bright Wrote: > Russel Winder wrote: > > Pity, because using one of Mercurial, Bazaar or Git instead of > > Subversion is likely the best and fastest way of getting more quality > > contributions to review. Although only anecdotal in every case where a > > team has switched to DVCS from CVCS -- except in the case of closed > > projects, obviously -- it has opened things up to far more people to > > provide contributions. Subversion is probably now the single biggest > > barrier to getting input on system evolution. > > > A couple months back, I did propose moving to git on the dmd internals > mailing > list, and nobody was interested. > > One thing I like a lot about svn is this: > > http://www.dsource.org/projects/dmd/changeset/291
You mean this: https://github.com/braddr/dmd/commit/f1fde96227394f926da5841db4f0f4c608b2e7b2 > > where the web view will highlight the revision's changes. Does git or > mercurial > do that? The other thing I like a lot about gif is it sends out emails for > each > checkin. > > One thing I would dearly like is to be able to merge branches using meld. > > http://meld.sourceforge.net/ Git does not have its own merge tool. You are free to use meld. Though there is gitmerge which can run meld as the merge tool.
