On Sun, Aug 30, 2009 at 9:53 PM, Paul Heinlein<[email protected]> wrote: > On Sat, 29 Aug 2009, Rich Shepard wrote: > >> On Sat, 29 Aug 2009, Jason Dagit wrote: >> >>> Unless you have very large code base, history, or very large files >>> I doubt you will benefit from git compared with other distributed >>> version control systems. >> >> Jason, >> >> None of the above. >> >>> If you are a casual vcs user and you want a solid vcs that >>> emphasizes ease of use, try darcs. It's mature, stable, and gets a >>> lot of praise for ease of use. http://darcs.net >> >> OK. >> >> Subversion worked fine for a couple of years. But among upgrades >> to the distribution, BDB, and Subversion itself, something broke. >> That's not nice behavior. >> >> I'll try darcs. > > Rich, > > Listening to a computer scientist will get you into lots of mischief. > Plus, he's not disinterested in this matter, as he contributed code to > the darcs project. (Hi, Jason!)
I did try to let Rich know I was biased the first time I recommended it :) Actually, what became a bigger hurdle is that slackware lacks packages for ghc (to compile darcs) or darcs itself. Which leads me to want to make other recommendations, but I don't think distro recommendations are a good idea across email :) While I am making too many recommendations... Rich, have you thought about trying hg? It's written in python if I recall correctly. So maybe that's easier to get on your slackware machine. I've never used hg, but I've heard it's easier than git and svn. Jason _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
