Lan Barnes wrote:
Please, this is not meant personally. It's my philosophy, not a slap at you.
That's fine. Just realize that this applies force which pushes away from SVN. I want students to spend as much time as possible learning the concepts and as little time as possible learning tools. Thus, I try to use popular tools which can do the job (Java, Eclipse, CVS, etc.). However, if a tool can't do the job, it doesn't matter how popular it is.
Several people have asked on the SVN lists about fine-grained access control for CS classes. None have come up with a particularly good solution.
For this semester, I'll probably limp along with SVN. I don't want to teach CVS to students; it's a dead end for them.
However, I'll probably poke some of my more advanced students to get a couple of them to buff up the Mercurial plugin so that i don't have this problem in the future.
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