On 02/16/2011 12:05 PM, Russel Winder wrote:
On Wed, 2011-02-16 at 02:45 -0800, Carl Jokl wrote:
It seems like all the cool kids are using Git these days. I am feeling
[ . . . ]
Not all. Some are using Mercurial, and quite a lot are using Bazaar --
Git is not the only product used extensively. The core point is that
DVCS is an improvement evolution of CVCS, even for proprietary software
not just FOSS (for which DVCS should now be considered mandatory).
Carl, I definitely advice about moving away from Subversion to a
distributed thing, even for private stuff. I can't help but thinking how
useful is to run
mkdir TempProject
cd TempProject
hg initd
And you can commit locally without any setup. The past week I've run a
few days of teaching TDD to a customer by doing together the desing of a
sample test project. I consider it very valuable to show where I would
really do a commit in a real scenario, plus in the end the zip of
TempProject contained the history of the project evolution and everybody
is able to replay the things that we did together.
If TempProject is something that you work on for some time and in the
end you discover it's something that's worth while sharing, it's just a
matter of getting a remote repo and make a push. With subversion moving
a repo is usually a painful thing.
Of course, you can even setup Subversion to work locally, but it's not
as easy and fast as with Mercurial or Git.
Finally, even though I've never tried it, Mercurial (and I suppose Git
too) has got hgsvn, which allows to work with a local Mercurial repo and
push/pull to a remote Subversion repo.
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