Hello, VCS wars^Wdiscussions!
On Fri, 06 Jun 2008, Arnold Noronha wrote: > My personal preference is svn+svk.. so everybody is happy: those who > want centralized can use svn directly, and those who want > decentralized (like me) can use svk. > > svk can get pretty slow once the number of commits becomes large. :( > > I haven't worked with git or mtn or bazaar, so can't really compare. I have worked with svn (in fact my Debian packages are in svn.debian.org). However, of late, I have found the following workflow using git and git-svn easier to handle. 0. I used git-svn _once_ to clone the repository from svn.debian.org This takes a long time so it is best to do it once only! 1. I use git to do actual development work. This allows me to work on topic branches merge etc. I have found git convenient even for single-user work! (E.g. offline commits, colorized info screens) 2. I use git-svn to fetch/dcommit once I have a clean-ish branch that needs to go to the repository. 3. I use "svn copy" to create new svn branches or svn tags. I wish (3) could be avoided and git-svn would handle this too. I believe this is easier than using svk with svn. The reasons for using svn.debian.org instead of git.debian.org are that I'm too lazy to migrate the existing repository which was created when I learnt svn. If one is starting a fresh repository then I would skip the svn part altogether and just go with git. Mercurial looks fine for this kind of work as well but there is no hg-svn tool and tailor didn't work well enough for me. In any case, you need to play a _lot_ (in a toy-mode) with a VCS before adopting it. It is best that you learn on a toy repository how to back out of bad commits and messed up trees. Doing that on a live repository can be nerve-wracking _and_ expose your ignorance to all those who look at the history! In this too git is kinder than svn. Regards, Kapil. -- _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe <password> <address>" in the subject or body of the message. http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
