From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Juanma Barranquero" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Switching to Subversion Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2006 00:17:47 +0100 Message-ID: References: <87mz6y8y3j.fsf@catnip.gol.com> <87bqne87ur.fsf@catnip.gol.com> <10609.1163264429@olgas.newt.com> <87fycphhyr.fsf@pacem.orebokech.com> <87odrdzci9.fsf@olgas.newt.com> <85bqncxszg.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <87fyco473y.fsf@catnip.gol.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1163373512 25854 80.91.229.2 (12 Nov 2006 23:18:32 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 12 Nov 2006 23:18:32 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Nov 13 00:18:30 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GjOam-00052B-Nj for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 13 Nov 2006 00:18:25 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GjOal-0001uj-Vs for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 12 Nov 2006 18:18:24 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GjOaY-0001qZ-1I for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 12 Nov 2006 18:18:10 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GjOaU-0001iI-F9 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 12 Nov 2006 18:18:09 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GjOaU-0001ht-6D for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 12 Nov 2006 18:18:06 -0500 Original-Received: from [64.233.162.194] (helo=nz-out-0102.google.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1GjOaU-0001UA-42 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 12 Nov 2006 18:18:06 -0500 Original-Received: by nz-out-0102.google.com with SMTP id r28so625204nza for ; Sun, 12 Nov 2006 15:18:05 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=EhCB8Ubo45rdE/PiLiDzGIR98cQZLm9xtmYnFIMh9i6RuaSZeCsL5E78slWuJJdRo7FIa+UORchLdulQqyOfea5Y1t5F786SNAHq45t2cobmJ/zsnT8wLiaZ65UvAx13SURzCUImMLNJmiB7rFWDbhFujUrOWF2tnRkNgvZaySQ= Original-Received: by 10.35.72.6 with SMTP id z6mr9574998pyk.1163373467580; Sun, 12 Nov 2006 15:17:47 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: by 10.35.95.18 with HTTP; Sun, 12 Nov 2006 15:17:47 -0800 (PST) Original-To: "Miles Bader" In-Reply-To: <87fyco473y.fsf@catnip.gol.com> Content-Disposition: inline X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:62149 Archived-At: On 11/12/06, Miles Bader wrote: > It has _excellent_ support for distributed development and > merging (it's more like arch in that sense, though very different in > others), two areas where subversion is usually considered weak. Subversion is weak in both areas, but both will be eventually addressed. IIRC, there's already work being done in the issue of merging, and the idea of distributed development (or "decentralized version control") was talked about in a recent developer's meeting, judging by the coments in the Subversives blog: http://svn-dev.blogspot.com/2006/10/decentralized-version-control.html) > The big downside to git currently > seem to be a somewhat sharp learning curve at the beginning. Does it run on Windows? > [Note, I personally still use arch, but because it doesn't have much > development momentum behind it at this point, I'd be hesitant to > recommend it for a major project.] And, on the other hand, that's one more reason for recommending SVN: it is easy to use, stable, it's increasingly used in more and more projects, and development is quite actively pursued. Honestly, I don't know of another free SCM being, today, where SVN is. In a few years: sure. But now, most of these systems (git probably excluded) seem too much one-person efforts (or just-a-few-persons, to be fair). /L/e/k/t/u