From: Michael Olson <mwolson@gnu.org>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: dVCS vs. CVS
Date: Mon, 07 Jan 2008 21:46:29 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <877iil5916.fsf@grepfind.mwolson.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87k5mlgsqg.fsf@member.fsf.org
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Tassilo Horn <tassilo@member.fsf.org> writes:
> Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de> writes:
>
> Hi Alan,
>
>>> So basically the only difference is that you have to commit to your
>>> local repository. As long as you don't use more advanced functions
>>> of the dVCS, there's nothing more complicated.
>>
>> Sorry, but no. What makes it complicated are all the other things
>> that you don't want to use. The things that are there, but you are
>> forced to ignore.
>
> You can shoot yourself in the foot with CVS, too. But it's easy to
> give non-programmers a recipe how they can work with a dVCS as well as
> it is possible with CVS now.
Even for programmers, a recipe for how to use the current dVCS is
useful. Every one of the projects I maintain has its own quickstart
guide for how to use git, tailored to the location of the repository for
each project, and its active branches.
Here they are:
- http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/ErcDevelopment
- http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/MuseDevelopment
- http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/PlannerDevelopment
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-01-08 2:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-01-06 14:01 dVCS vs. CVS Bastien
2008-01-07 15:23 ` Yavor Doganov
2008-01-07 16:03 ` Tassilo Horn
2008-01-07 21:00 ` Alan Mackenzie
2008-01-07 22:45 ` Tassilo Horn
2008-01-08 2:46 ` Michael Olson [this message]
2008-01-08 9:28 ` Yavor Doganov
2008-01-08 12:59 ` Miles Bader
2008-01-07 16:05 ` David Kastrup
2008-01-07 21:52 ` Bastien
2008-01-07 21:59 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2008-01-07 22:19 ` David Kastrup
2008-01-08 8:57 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2008-01-09 11:37 ` Richard Stallman
2008-01-07 22:33 ` Bastien
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