Re: temporal snapshot of cvs source is prepared

[Daniel J S. <dan...@ie...>]

On 02/11/2011 05:15 PM, Tait wrote:
>>> If anyone wants, the downloads are also available here:
>>>      https://github.com/gnuplot/gnuplot
>>> (and complete history).
>>
>> Oh! It's nice.
>
> I'll second (third?) the recommendation that we switch away from CVS to
> git. It's widely used across many open-source projects, it's resilient
> against the kinds of outages that we're experiencing right now (each clone
> represents the entire repository + history), and I personally prefer using
> it. I don't think it matters much whether we move from SF to github or
> anything else, but the time to move away from CVS is overdue.

A couple years back I evaluated several source control programs. 
Mercurial is pretty nice.  Like git, it is a distributed source control 
program.  (All the changes travel with it when users upload the 
source...I'm thinking that maybe once a year it is a good idea to prune 
and archive the changes.)  Mercurial was a little more straightforward 
than git; not so bulky, easy to start doing basic things.  Mercurial has 
a way of creating a local html server if one wants to view the change 
history.  I found git to be good, but didn't like the platform concept. 
  Things have to be moved into a platform and from there checked in.  It 
just seemed like extraneous keyboard typing.  Git is good at branching 
and such.  But I don't think gnuplot development has the need for much 
branching.

Dan