Re: [Geoserver-devel] Adopting a dvcs for branches

2010-01-22 Thread Jody Garnett
I had a pretty negative experience with git when uDig was considering the transition. It was functional but not the kind of thing I could use in a training course with a straight face (as it basically required a cygwin shell). It seems there are some good front ends for GIT now; and I noticed http

Re: [Geoserver-devel] Adopting a dvcs for branches

2010-01-22 Thread Justin Deoliveira
That is a really good point. As far as I know git will not follow externals, there might be a way to cause it to but I am not aware of one. So what I have done locally is just set up symlinks as need be. On 1/22/10 10:40 AM, David Winslow wrote: >> Yeah, I am probably just being over conservati

Re: [Geoserver-devel] Adopting a dvcs for branches

2010-01-22 Thread David Winslow
On 01/22/2010 08:18 AM, Justin Deoliveira wrote: > On 1/22/10 2:44 AM, Andrea Aime wrote: > >> Justin Deoliveira ha scritto: >> >>> Hi all, >>> >>> There has been some recent interest in supplementing our current version >>> control systems with a distributed versioning tool like mercuria

Re: [Geoserver-devel] Adopting a dvcs for branches

2010-01-22 Thread Justin Deoliveira
On 1/22/10 2:44 AM, Andrea Aime wrote: > Justin Deoliveira ha scritto: >> Hi all, >> >> There has been some recent interest in supplementing our current version >> control systems with a distributed versioning tool like mercurial or git >> since they are much better at handling branches. >> >> For

Re: [Geoserver-devel] Adopting a dvcs for branches

2010-01-21 Thread Andrea Aime
Justin Deoliveira ha scritto: > Hi all, > > There has been some recent interest in supplementing our current version > control systems with a distributed versioning tool like mercurial or git > since they are much better at handling branches. > > For a few months now I have been using git to ma