Re: [Exist-development] DVCS - Distributed Version Control?

[Dmitriy S. <sha...@gm...>]

On Tue, 2010-03-30 at 12:15 +0200, Dannes Wessels wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 12:02 PM, Adam Retter <ad...@ex...> wrote:
> > Moving away from SourceForge would seem a little extreme to me, and
> > certainly would raise larger questions than just what SCM we use.
> >
> > Perhaps it would be worth contacting sourceforge and finding out what
> > their plans for Mercurial are? They are only trialling it at the
> > moment, so I guess they will have a roadmap for making it a primary
> > service and probably offering a http service.
> 
> For me, tooling support is the most important factor here. At this
> moment, as far as I see, SVN is the most commonly used way for code
> management. Existing tooling is just excellent (tortoisesvn, svnkit,
> etc) and .... existent.

Mercurial don't have problems in tools with GUI
( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercurial ). Current problem is http
assess only, proxy can solve it.

I did start one project on Mercurial & I'll share my experience as soon
as get them ;) 

> I fear that a switch would 'ruin' this situation. The current SVN does
> not hurt me in any way, so I do not see the benefit of another system,
> at least not at this moment.
> 
> D.
> 
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Cheers,

Dmitriy Shabanov