[ros-dev] DVCS again [was: Trunk locked]

[Aleksey Bragin]

I have to agree that the DVCS I tried (Hg and Git) all are quite...  
let's be honest: crappy (on Windows). I also tried to work on my own  
branches using git, I tried to do Wine syncs using a special Wine  
branch in a local git repo. All failed, everything was non trivial,  
and required a lot more work.

Subversion just works. Also, a git mirror is provided, so that when  
the trunk is locked for some reason, devs still have an option to:
a) create their own branch in SVN, work in a branch, do anything they  
like
b) create their own git fork, work in it, publish it, get famous/ 
blamed, anything they like

There are no restrictions really, especially having in mind that our  
SVN repo is already clonable by everyone, so everyone can have 10+  
years of ReactOS hard work on a DVD disk.

I don't really see any need to switch our VCS to anything else.


WBR,
Aleksey Bragin.


On Nov 29, 2009, at 1:49 PM, Timo Kreuzer wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I worked with TortoiseHg some time, I thought I could get used to it,
> but to no avail.
> From my experience, I can only say that almost *everything* is non
> trivial or doesn't work Apart from the shitty interface.
> I just tested the latest version again, it's completely  
> unintuitive, and
> merging gave me even more conflicts than I would have expected with  
> SVN.
>
> My experience with using a branch with TSVN is that there's no  
> problem.
> Even merging hundreds of revisions from trunk to the branch worked  
> quite
> well with rarely any conflicts and it's done with a few clicks.
>
> We don't need a different versioning system, we need a better source
> organisation. Independency of modules. Independency from the tools/ 
> sdk.
> That would also help with working on branches.
>
> Just my 2 cents,
> Timo
>
>
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