On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 4:47 PM, Jacek Antonelli <jacek.antone...@gmail.com>wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 1:13 PM, Carlo Wood <ca...@alinoe.com> wrote: > > Actually, I think I understand why. > > > > LL is using hg internally, and has been for a while. > > They just pushed things out as svn for public access, but that process > > caused all the meta data to be lost and had to be done manually, and > > therefore only sometimes in big large chunks. > > > > It is for the benefit of snowglobe that commits to the internal > > repository are available with meta data and as the original change sets, > > once they are merged with the public repository. > > > > With hg this is possible: just push the changeset to the "public > > hg repository", but only if that public repository run hg itself. > > > > On top of that, merging branches is much easier (according to > > http://hginit.com/00.html), that holds for merging changes from internal > > into snowglobe but also for TPV's assuming they switch to hg as well. > > It should become much easier for us and for others using hg to merge > > 'upstream' changes with the ever growning set of local patches and > > extensions. > > Yep, I would guess those are all some of LL's reasons for switching > away from SVN. > > Also, speaking from my experience using SVN for several years before > switching to Git (which is close enough to Hg), using a distributed > version control system just changes the way you work, and the way you > think about version control and software development. Personally, I > think that mental shift is even more important than the new features > and tools and easy merges (which are also very nice, of course). > > Think of the old lock-based systems, where one team member would > "check out" a file, and no one else could edit it until they were > done. Once people switched to systems like CVS or SVN that let all the > developers keep working without blocking each other (as much), it > really altered and improved how software was developed and how teams > worked together. Distributed systems take this to the next step, and > again it alters and improves the way developers work and collaborate. > > Plus everything's just way faster. :-D I never realized how much time > I spent waiting for a SVN commit to finish -- or even checking the log > -- until I used Git. Now I'm completely spoiled, and waiting 10 > seconds to contact the server just to look at the log, or 30 seconds > (or even minutes (!) for big changes) to commit feels like an eternity > to me. It may seem like a little thing, but it feels so much nicer > when nearly every operation is near-instantaneous. > > - Jacek > also, some of us use hg-git internally, http://hg-git.github.com/ I won't comment on which direction we're converting things. ;) -Brad
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