Re: [Boa Constr] Question on opinions...

[Werner F. B. <wer...@fr...>]

On 26/11/2010 11:53, Werner F. Bruhin wrote:
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>
> Source code control
>
> I really believe that CVS is a big problem here, it's support for
> merges/branches etc is not good.  Windows 7 doesn't have a client which
> is officially maintained .......
>
> I use SVN for my own stuff but frankly wasn't impressed with it's merge
> support, also it is supposed to be getting better.  Will know in a
> couple of weeks when I merge my latest stuff back to the trunk.
>
>   From what I read/hear is that Git, Mercurial and Bazaar are doing a
> much better job in allowing to merge and resync with the base, i.e. to
> support distributed development.
>
> Branches would allow a contributor to make his/her changes in an
> isolated way, anyone could test it (without having to merge/patch) and
> when done it should be easy to create a patch and/or merge back to the
> main trunk or future version.
>
 From what I found it looks like Git would be the "front runner" for a 
change.

The following give I think a good overview on Git and how it compares to 
SVN and others.

http://whygitisbetterthanx.com/
https://git.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/GitSvnComparison

When I get a moment (probably in a week or two) I will look a bit closer 
at Git and actually try it out for my own stuff.

Werner