From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Harry Putnam Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Not a holy war Date: Thu, 08 Apr 2010 17:41:58 -0500 Organization: Still searching... Message-ID: <87iq81woqx.fsf@newsguy.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1270766549 8173 80.91.229.12 (8 Apr 2010 22:42:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 8 Apr 2010 22:42:29 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Apr 09 00:42:28 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1O00Qe-0008LD-2e for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 09 Apr 2010 00:42:28 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:49359 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1O00Qd-0004Ix-Dn for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 08 Apr 2010 18:42:27 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1O00QY-0004Is-DM for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 08 Apr 2010 18:42:22 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=56864 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1O00QW-0004Ik-4u for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 08 Apr 2010 18:42:21 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1O00QU-00042G-IK for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 08 Apr 2010 18:42:20 -0400 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:43616) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1O00QU-000428-51 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 08 Apr 2010 18:42:18 -0400 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1O00QS-0008HB-Qy for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 09 Apr 2010 00:42:16 +0200 Original-Received: from c-98-215-178-110.hsd1.in.comcast.net ([98.215.178.110]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 09 Apr 2010 00:42:16 +0200 Original-Received: from reader by c-98-215-178-110.hsd1.in.comcast.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 09 Apr 2010 00:42:16 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 44 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: c-98-215-178-110.hsd1.in.comcast.net User-Agent: Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:GKCpMPJaFXcuz/7tYnqGmIMKKa0= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) 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:123364 Archived-At: Can some advanced user here list reasons why bazaar might be better than mercurial, for the usage described briefly below. Or, if merc would, in fact, be the better tool. Usage scenario: One repo each for hosts on home lan. At least the linux/opensolaris hosts. Which amounts to some 8 hosts. (Some are vmware guests on windows machines). Not much need for repos on windows machines here. Or at least, I've never really felt the urge to do programming or experimentation on the windows machines, beyond installing various bits of software. 1) (Probably) Main usage is keeping versions of quite a few OS related `rc' files. Quite a few under /etc but also /boot and the directories that contain my 150 or so scripts. Also a few under /var. Each repo is kept in a directory structure roughly mirroring the host it is on. Till now I've always done this with cvs... so that is my sole exprience with vcs tools. I had a cvsroot on the server that included all hosts, then on each host a checked out module for that host. 2) I keep an area which is really an nfs mounted zfs filesystem from opensolaris server for various projects or scripting experiments etc. I think I want to start keeping that as a repo and tracking the assorted scripting experiments or experimental usage of tools I don't know how to use yet. Some, maybe even most tracked files may be pretty short lived, or may set in the repo unchanged, once experimentation is over. Sooner or later, I think there will come a time when I want to see previous versions of some of this stuff. So those 2 points would be about it for me. Very light usage and also single user usage.