dukeofgaming wrote:
Its actually faster to use the command line when u have enough practice;
picture yourself merging branches or something more complicated, I think
its easier typing stuff as you think it than finding your way around a
GUI, command line reacts faster than a GUI too. I use the IDE
integration though, but not the shell integration, at all. I agree on
visualizing repository tree on the GUI though. In the end its up to each
individual.
This is the key here.
When working on PHP projects via CVS and SVN I get a view of all the files which
have changed in the IDE. I can then review those changes and only need to select
those which do not clash with my own local changes. I can also immediately see
committed changes that NEED to be rolled back because they DO clash with the
areas that I am maintaining! Simply automatically merging from the command line
does not work FOR ME.
DVCS in theory provides a nice way for me to manage my own builds of these
projects, but the black hole is now how the clash problems are handled as there
is no easy way to roll back a change that has broken something else. Adding the
complexity of multiple packages across several projects ... smarty, adodb and
the like, or building the internal extensions which use libraries from the likes
of apache, firebird ... in theory should be simplified by the use of a DVCS
approach, but the reality is that it is still very early days and while people
are running to a number of camps there needs to be a more tidy integration path
rather than the current diversity that has been created.
I think that what we actually need is a complete rethink of what the problems
are ... including managing the user projects rather than JUST raw source code
... and agree a level of operation rather than the current approach of slagging
off the paths that you do not agree with. Every package has problems and none of
them offer a single solution?
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