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Re: eCos VCS switch
- From: Jonathan Larmour <jifl at jifvik dot org>
- To: Alex Schuilenburg <alexs at ecoscentric dot com>
- Cc: eCos discussion <ecos-discuss at ecos dot sourceware dot org>
- Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2009 22:15:06 +0100
- Subject: Re: [ECOS] eCos VCS switch
- References: <4AB24B97.4040204@ecoscentric.com>
Alex Schuilenburg wrote:
A switch of the public CVS repository to Mercurial would be a major
improvement.
Agreed. My initial findings are also that mercurial is the preferred
solution. It is not as powerful as git, or even as fast,
By "more powerful", do you mean git allows you to do anything of
significance that hg/bzr doesn't? I didn't think there was from my own
checking, but I'm prepared to be corrected.
Or by any chance do you mean that it's more powerful/fast if you have the
ability to remember which of the gazillion different git commands to use
with precisely which set of arcane options. Then it's a speedy one-liner!
Personally I would need a lot of convincing to use git. Or more precisely,
to make the eCos community with its breadth of users with varying
experience do so. I think it would raise the bar to using eCos in a very
negative way.
The only thing that might ameliorate it would be something like
http://code.google.com/p/tortoisegit/ but it seems like early days for
that, I'm not impressed by their webpage, it seems to have restricted
capabilities (but I may well be wrong on this count), and at best it's
playing catch-up with the others.
Jifl
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