* Martin Scharrer <[email protected]> [2010-09-28 10:56]: > Can you guys please explain to me why SVN doesn't work for you? I mean, > not in a technical sense, but we you are not simply using it? > What exactly is so much better in Mercurial? I don't know it at all. > Ok, it is distributed and SVN is centralized, but does this make any > difference for a repository like T-H? There are mostly only one or two > people working on a hack. It isn't the Linux kernel.
Exactly because it is distributed :) That means, someone does not need to have commit access to the svn repository on t-h.o to create their own branches, modifications etc. If you want to do only a simple change, a patch is sufficient, but doing something more is PITA if you can't commit during the work (you lose all the benefits of repository if you have to develop a big feture without the possibility to do commits). Second, even if you have commit access to the main svn repository, you sometimes want to have private branches, that you do not share with the world, to try, experiment, etc. Third, svn does not have branches, and merging branches there is just a nightmare compared to mercurial or git. And last, I don't know about mercurial, but git has just million times better experience when working with it in command line then svn. IMHO if you try hg or git, even in two people cooperation (or even individually), you just do not want to go back to the dark svn ages ;) greets silk _______________________________________________ th-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.trac-hacks.org/mailman/listinfo/th-users
