Re: [Jikesrvm-core] Id considered harmful

[Andy G. <and...@el...>]

Hi,

On 29 Nov 2006, at 23:35, Robin Garner wrote:

> Actually the ID tags have saved me a lot of time on occasion - when  
> living
> off a family of patches created and maintained off different CVS/SVN
> checkouts, a delta to an ID tag is a good signal that you've created a
> patch between different source trees, usually inadvertently.
>
> This is of course a symptom of the fact that using patches as a  
> local SCM
> system is less than ideal, but until we get something like 'git'  
> working
> properly I find the ID tags (or at least Revision or date) in comments
> useful.

I've been using darcs for local modification tracking while keeping  
in sync with the SVN repository. I'm unfamiliar with git, but I'm  
quite sure you can use darcs (http://www.darcs.net) alongside SVN.  
The former to track your own stuff, the latter to sync with the main  
repository and check in your code once you're happy with it.

-- Andy Georges