This is true. Good point.
2008/5/22 David Cournapeau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Laszlo Pandy wrote: >> >> Personally I think Bazaar is the best client, but SVN is the best server. >> The SVN server is most mature, etc, and the only thing it doesn't do well is >> renaming. Bazaar has a lot of cool distributed features, but since we need >> one 'official' branch that we release from, it has to be centralized, so >> Bazaar or SVN doesn't really matter. >> > > I think it is a mistake to see branch as worthless because you want to > release from one branch. IMHO, that's the biggest mistake you could do, > actually, when considering a DVCS. DVCS are not about having many equal > branches; it is about removing the *technical* barriers to branch, to change > branches, etc... SVN itself suggests a scheme to have one branch per release > BTW. For linux, most people take code from linux branch. > > The biggest problem with subversion is that it does not do branching > correctly: sure, you can do it, but nobody really does, because it is > extremely error prone (no merge tracking, etc... svnmerge is far from enough > to circumvent this). bzr (and all other DVCS) do merge correctly, because a > DVCS requires a merge system which is convenient. It is not that DVCS are > inherently better at merging: it is just that nobody would use a DVCS if > merging was as bad as in svn. > > With a DVCS, you can have many branches, some more important than others: I > use bzr for all my projects, and most of the time, I am the only one > contributing to them, but I still use branches all the time. Why ? > - with 'feature' branches, it is easy to navigate within one branch to see > the work on one feature without being annoyed by other people commits > - with bug branch, you can easily test whether the fix is working or not > - with release branch, you can manage release much more easily. > > Once you are used to this kind of workflow, it is extremely difficult to go > back to svn. > > cheers, > > David > _______________________________________________ jokosher-devel-list mailing list jokosher-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/jokosher-devel-list