[haiku-development] Re: Patch format (was: Commit-access for Matt Madia)

  • From: Ingo Weinhold <ingo_weinhold@xxxxxx>
  • To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sun, 28 Feb 2010 12:48:48 +0100

On 2010-02-27 at 22:58:49 [+0100], Ryan Leavengood <leavengood@xxxxxxxxx> 
wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 4:32 PM, Ingo Weinhold <ingo_weinhold@xxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > Thanks for the explanation. Unfortunately svn doesn't help with this at 
> > all
> > (AFAIK). I believe mercurial would, though.
> 
> Or obviously Git, but it seems many Haiku developers are not fans of
> Git for whatever reason.

I believe one of the reason for mercurial preference over git is the 
existence of revision numbers instead of just the cryptic hashes. Also the 
behavior of the commands feels more natural when comming from svn. I'm 
speaking only from somewhat limited experience with both git and mercurial.

CU, Ingo

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