Re: [OT] Q: what would you choose for a VCS today

2008-02-02 Thread Stefan Sperling
On Sat, Feb 02, 2008 at 11:49:10PM +0800, OutBackDingo wrote: I dont think I follow why people think its that hard to convert the FreeBSD src tree to some other RCS with history, branches and tags I seem to think this is doable. Seeing as Ive done it. And how did you convert it exactly?

Re: [OT] Q: what would you choose for a VCS today

2008-02-02 Thread Julian Elischer
OutBackDingo wrote: I dont think I follow why people think its that hard to convert the FreeBSD src tree to some other RCS with history, branches and tags I have a FULL CVS conversion to a mercurial tree converted from a February 1, 2008 CVS snapshot. I also have a Full CVS converted to

Re: [OT] Q: what would you choose for a VCS today

2008-02-01 Thread Stefan Sperling
On Thu, Jan 31, 2008 at 11:00:25AM +0100, Johan Bucht wrote: I've only tried CVS, Mericurial, Clearcase and a bit of Subversion. And if you don't need IDE integration Mercurial seems to be working pretty good. I just read an article about the new merging and branching support coming in

Re: [OT] Q: what would you choose for a VCS today

2008-02-01 Thread Stefan Sperling
On Fri, Feb 01, 2008 at 02:00:47AM +0200, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: Most tools seem to insist on trying to import the whole history of a CVS repository before they let you start doing any work in the newly

Re: [OT] Q: what would you choose for a VCS today

2008-02-01 Thread Mike Meyer
On Sat, 2 Feb 2008 00:34:58 +0200 Adrian Penisoara [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jan 31, 2008 6:02 PM, Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 31 Jan 2008 08:45:55 +0200 Adrian Penisoara [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Side-topic, if you bear with me: if you were to choose again what to use

Re: [OT] Q: what would you choose for a VCS today

2008-02-01 Thread Ollivier Robert
According to Mike Meyer: If the only thing preventing that was their OSS license terms, I'd be surprised if they wouldn't at least consider relaxing them for FreeBSD. Perforce has already been thought as a replacement (back in 2000 when p4 was introduced) but it will not be able to deal with

Re: [OT] Q: what would you choose for a VCS today

2008-02-01 Thread Adrian Penisoara
Hi, On Jan 31, 2008 6:02 PM, Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 31 Jan 2008 08:45:55 +0200 Adrian Penisoara [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Side-topic, if you bear with me: if you were to choose again what to use as source revision control system (VCS) from today's offerings, what

Re: [OT] Q: what would you choose for a VCS today

2008-02-01 Thread Aryeh M. Friedman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ollivier Robert wrote: According to Mike Meyer: If the only thing preventing that was their OSS license terms, I'd be surprised if they wouldn't at least consider relaxing them for FreeBSD. Perforce has already been thought as a replacement

Re: [OT] Q: what would you choose for a VCS today

2008-02-01 Thread Ollivier Robert
According to Aryeh M. Friedman: Ports 2.0 is using aegis (aegis.sf.net)... any possibility for wider use? Note: I am in the middle of making it FreeBSD friendly and beefing up the automated portions of distributed repos The day it can handle the loads that we have between src and ports, maybe

Re: [OT] Q: what would you choose for a VCS today

2008-02-01 Thread Aryeh M. Friedman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ollivier Robert wrote: According to Aryeh M. Friedman: Ports 2.0 is using aegis (aegis.sf.net)... any possibility for wider use? Note: I am in the middle of making it FreeBSD friendly and beefing up the automated portions of distributed repos

Re: [OT] Q: what would you choose for a VCS today

2008-02-01 Thread OutBackDingo
I dont think I follow why people think its that hard to convert the FreeBSD src tree to some other RCS with history, branches and tags I have a FULL CVS conversion to a mercurial tree converted from a February 1, 2008 CVS snapshot. I also have a Full CVS converted to Subversion. And they have

Re: [OT] Q: what would you choose for a VCS today

2008-01-31 Thread Julian Elischer
Aryeh M. Friedman wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Adrian Penisoara wrote: Hi, Side-topic, if you bear with me: if you were to choose again what to use as source revision control system (VCS) from today's offerings, what would you choose to maintain FreeBSD's sources or

Re: [OT] Q: what would you choose for a VCS today

2008-01-31 Thread Heiko Wundram (Beenic)
Am Donnerstag, 31. Januar 2008 10:03:22 schrieb Julian Elischer: I'm having to use mercurial. I'm not really enjoying it. works ok for small projects. BSD is a bit big for it. doe work foe offline editing, but loses all your BSD history. We're using mercurial pretty much for all of our

Re: [OT] Q: what would you choose for a VCS today

2008-01-31 Thread Johan Bucht
I've only tried CVS, Mericurial, Clearcase and a bit of Subversion. And if you don't need IDE integration Mercurial seems to be working pretty good. I just read an article about the new merging and branching support coming in Subversion 1.5 and it looks like it might have some future. The IDE

Re: [OT] Q: what would you choose for a VCS today

2008-01-31 Thread OutBackDingo
I'm having to use mercurial. I'm not really enjoying it. works ok for small projects. BSD is a bit big for it. doe work foe offline editing, but loses all your BSD history. probably SVK is the way to go from what I hear. Im using mercurial on full FreeBSD trees, curiosity makes me ask

Re: [OT] Q: what would you choose for a VCS today

2008-01-31 Thread Dag-Erling Smørgrav
Adrian Penisoara [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Side-topic, if you bear with me: if you were to choose again what to use as source revision control system (VCS) from today's offerings, what would you choose to maintain FreeBSD's sources or a side-off project tracking FreeBSD as base that would

Re: [OT] Q: what would you choose for a VCS today

2008-01-31 Thread Mike Meyer
On Thu, 31 Jan 2008 08:45:55 +0200 Adrian Penisoara [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Side-topic, if you bear with me: if you were to choose again what to use as source revision control system (VCS) from today's offerings, what would you choose to maintain FreeBSD's sources or a side-off project

Re: [OT] Q: what would you choose for a VCS today

2008-01-31 Thread Tom Evans
On Thu, 2008-01-31 at 11:02 -0500, Mike Meyer wrote: On Thu, 31 Jan 2008 08:45:55 +0200 Adrian Penisoara [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Subversion is a close second, but is still a little rough around the edges. Most notably, merge tracking is in the 1.5 beta builds, but not in the production

Re: [OT] Q: what would you choose for a VCS today

2008-01-31 Thread Julian Elischer
OutBackDingo wrote: I'm having to use mercurial. I'm not really enjoying it. works ok for small projects. BSD is a bit big for it. doe work foe offline editing, but loses all your BSD history. probably SVK is the way to go from what I hear. Im using mercurial on full FreeBSD trees, curiosity

Re: [OT] Q: what would you choose for a VCS today

2008-01-31 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 8:45 AM +0200 1/31/08, Adrian Penisoara wrote: Hi, Side-topic, if you bear with me: if you were to choose again what to use as source revision control system (VCS) from today's offerings, what would you choose to maintain FreeBSD's sources or a side-off project tracking FreeBSD as base

Re: [OT] Q: what would you choose for a VCS today

2008-01-31 Thread Stefan Sperling
On Thu, Jan 31, 2008 at 08:45:55AM +0200, Adrian Penisoara wrote: Hi, Side-topic, if you bear with me: if you were to choose again what to use as source revision control system (VCS) from today's offerings, what would you choose to maintain FreeBSD's sources or a side-off project tracking

Re: [OT] Q: what would you choose for a VCS today

2008-01-31 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2008-01-31 21:37, Stefan Sperling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I could not find any tool that does this properly among subversion, git, monotone and mercurial. That's not a big list, but I don't have time to try out version control systems all day. Also, proprietary VCS's were never considered

Re: [OT] Q: what would you choose for a VCS today

2008-01-31 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2008-02-01 02:00, Giorgos Keramidas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You can keep 'importing' snapshots of the src tree from any arbitrary CVS branch, if you are willing to wait until CVS checks out the first copy of the snapshot. This is how we 'resync' with the official doc/ tree changes in the

[OT] Q: what would you choose for a VCS today

2008-01-30 Thread Adrian Penisoara
Hi, Side-topic, if you bear with me: if you were to choose again what to use as source revision control system (VCS) from today's offerings, what would you choose to maintain FreeBSD's sources or a side-off project tracking FreeBSD as base that would allow better teams cooperation and easy code

Re: [OT] Q: what would you choose for a VCS today

2008-01-30 Thread Aryeh M. Friedman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Adrian Penisoara wrote: Hi, Side-topic, if you bear with me: if you were to choose again what to use as source revision control system (VCS) from today's offerings, what would you choose to maintain FreeBSD's sources or a side-off project