Hi, > > Yesterday I had some talk to (mostly) CVS/SVN based guys about > > Mercurial. Maybe it was me, but they were not very happy about possible > > move to Mercurial. For two main reasons: > > Without appearing to be rude, what is the point of this ? Are you > trying to say that the OpenSolaris consoliations (such as ON) should > reconsider Mercurial ?
Ok, I'm sorry if the mail sounded as if I want to attack Mercurial.
Personally I like it, I even have system which let's me to use HG for
projects which are using other repositories. I'm not saying that we
should reconsider hg for ON.
My point is that after talking to guys who don't use it, we found out
that if they will have to switch (I don't know if they will have to, nor
they do know, it's hypothetical) they can see some issues with it. I
listed two (imo biggest) issues which they had (size & wild branching)
and I am asking if these have some chance of being solved.
> Remember that CVS/SVN have a fundamental missing feature for some
> OpenSolaris consolidations (particularly ON) in that they are not
> distributed but centralised.
No doubt about that, this was my argument also. Maybe I choosed wrong
alias, I though this is generally for tools, not just for opensolaris ?
> I don't know what the needs of the Java source base(s) are so I can't
> comment on wither or not Mercurial is a good choice for them.
And they don't know mercurial, so they can't comment also :)
> I will agree though that for some people the partial tree bringover will
> be missed from teamware - I used to use it a lot until I started storing
> repositories on ZFS and then thanks to its clones I no longer care about
> partial trees.
I used this argument also, zfs helps here (thought not for first pull).
However that requires Solaris. Or don't clone the repository locally,
rather use several branches in one repository.
Thanks for your comments
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Vlad
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