Tassilo Horn writes: > Alan Mackenzie 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 -- Michael Olson -- FSF Associate Member #652 | http://mwolson.org/ -- Jabber: mwolson_at_hcoop.net | /` |\ | | | Programmer -- Hobbies: Lisp, HCoop | |_] | \| |_| Projects: Emacs, Muse, ERC, EMMS, ErBot, DVC, Planner |