Re: [Openslp-devel] SourceForge.net site update in progress...

[Nick W. <ne...@wi...>]

I used git a little bit, but I haven't really used a DVCS professionally.
 +1 for either git or mercurial.


On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 12:12 PM, John Calcote <joh...@gm...>wrote:

> OpenSLP developers,****
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> I have two issues to bring up this morning.****
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> *OpenSLP Site Update*
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> While out on sf.net today, I noticed that there was a site update
> available to which project admins must “opt in”. I carefully read the
> documentation about the update to ensure that it would have no negative
> impact on our project or developers, but apparently I missed the part where
> the repositories are updated to new locations and directory structures.
> Thus (and I apologize for any inconvenience this may cause) you will need
> to check out a new work area using the new svn repository locations before
> committing any more work to the repo. You can find the new repo locations
> listed on this page:****
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>     https://sourceforge.net/p/openslp/code/****
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> Click the “RW” button to ensure you’re using the URL that will grant you
> read/write access. The new location follows this pattern (where sfuserid is
> your sourceforge user id):****
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>     ssh://sfuserid@svn.code.sf.net/p/openslp/code/trunk openslp-code****
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> Thus, you can use the following command to get your new work area:****
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>     svn checkout --username=sfuserid svn+ssh://
> sfu...@sv.../p/openslp/code/trunk openslp-code****
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> The repo is currently updating, so please wait till the import has
> completed before checking out your new work areas. The import status is
> available at the top of the page on the link above.****
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> *Distributed Version Control*
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> Now on to the next topic: I’m considering switching to a distributed
> version control system (DVCS) like git or mercurial. These tools are nearly
> identical, so I’m not particularly concerned which one we use, but since
> I’ve started using a DVCS professionally a couple of years ago, I’ve begun
> to wonder why anyone stays with centralized VCS systems like CVS or
> Subversion anymore. The mercurial patch queue features alone are worth the
> switch. ****
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> My only concern, at this point, is that some of you may not be familiar or
> comfortable with DVCS’s because your work experience hasn’t taken you in
> that direction yet. So I’ll leave it up to you – let’s take a vote and see
> if we’re willing and able to switch over to a DVCS, and which one we would
> prefer. My vote is:****
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>     +1/mercurial****
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> I have to tell you that, while I don’t mind using git, there are a couple
> of reasons I prefer mercurial: 1) I’ve been using mercurial so I understand
> it completely, and 2) mercurial is written in python, so it has none of the
> (Windows) portability issues associated with git (Cygwin/msys, etc).****
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> John****
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