[haiku-development] Re: Proposal: Moving away from Subversion

  • From: Ingo Weinhold <ingo_weinhold@xxxxxx>
  • To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2010 14:09:34 +0200

On 2010-06-22 at 22:31:22 [+0200], Oliver Tappe <zooey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 
wrote:
[...]
> With any of git or mercurial, I'd suggest to keep the central repository
> approach, but additionally give every developer the chance to create a
> clone from the central repo in his home folder (which would then be part of
> the backup scheme).
> This way, everyone could experiment in his own repo or commit directly into
> the central repo.

While that sounds good, wouldn't it dramatically increase disk usage (beyond 
what is currently available)?

> Anyway, I'd like to hear any input on whether or not we should drop
> subversion and, if so, which way we should go.

+1 for moving to a distributed VCS. I haven't worked much with either git or 
hg, but the revision numbers are definitely a plus for hg in my book.

CU, Ingo

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