Nice to hear that monotone is so much faster than git and mercurial for certain operations.
Hugo On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 7:31 PM, J Decker <d3c...@gmail.com> wrote: > Nice to see lots of bugs squashed :) > > I have to thank you for developing a sane product. I have been > coerced into using mercurial at work, and after coming from monotone, > some of the things it makes me do are just insane. Merge, for > instance, must be done through a workspace, so in order to just merge > two heads, If I had work in progress in the tree, I have to clone the > repository to another directory, check out the source(ya that's the > same step), and then do the merging; A commit from a merge cannot be > done with relative paths like 'I want to commit just this part of the > tree', you have to commit the whole thing, so work in progress changes > would get mixed up in the whole thing. The revisions to merge are all > in the repository, so why does it require a workspace?! Git does the > same thing in this respect. > > I dunno, this seems like such a small thing, but it pisses me off to > no end that I have to do so much extra work just to make sure that > sane merges happen. > > Rebasing to another branch in mercurial and git are both very slow. > > (coming from branch) > mtn update -r h:branch1 (takes like 3 seconds, 6 if i count the time > it scrolls text) > hg update -r h:branch1 (takes like a minute) > > and there were more files changed in the mtn difference between > branches than were changes in mercurial. > > git also gave me a huge hassle rebasing to another branch... I had > minor edits in the files, and it had no idea what to do with that... > and revert didn't work.. but that was a month ago, so the details of > my anger elude me. > > Again, thanx, keep up the great work! > > Wish you guys get a gui soon! what with tortoise hg, git, and svn out > there (is there a tortoise bzr yet) ... should be easy enough to grab > one of those and tweak it to fit monotone. > > Jim > > _______________________________________________ > Monotone-devel mailing list > Monotone-devel@nongnu.org > http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/monotone-devel > -- Hugo -- Hugo Cornelis Ph.D. Neurospaces Project Architect http://www.neurospaces.org/ Laboratory of Neuro- and Psychofysiology O&N I Herestraat 49 - bus 1021 3000 Leuven, Belgium Research Imaging Center University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio 7703 Floyd Curl Drive San Antonio, TX 78284-6240 Phone: 210 567 8112 Fax: 210 567 8152 _______________________________________________ Monotone-devel mailing list Monotone-devel@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/monotone-devel