On 06/01/2011 19:19, "Jérôme M. Berger" wrote:
Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
What are the advantages of Mercurial over git? (git does allow multiple
branches.)
I've also been mulling over whether to try out and switch away from
Subversion to a DVCS, but never went ahead cause I've also been
undecided about Git vs. Mercurial. So this whole discussion here in the
NG has been helpful, even though I rarely use branches, if at all.
However, there is an important issue for me that has not been mentioned
ever, I wonder if other people also find it relevant. It annoys me a lot
in Subversion, and basically it's the aspect where if you delete,
rename, or copy a folder under version control in a SVN working copy,
without using the SVN commands, there is a high likelihood your working
copy will break! It's so annoying, especially since sometimes no amount
of svn revert, cleanup, unlock, override and update, etc. will fix it. I
just had one recently where I had to delete and re-checkout the whole
project because it was that broken.
Other situations also seem to cause this, even when using SVN tooling
(like partially updating from a commit that delete or moves directories,
or something like that) It's just so brittle.
I think it may be a consequence of the design aspect of SVN where each
subfolder of a working copy is a working copy as well (and each
subfolder of repository is a repository as well)
Anyways, I hope Mercurial and Git are better at this, I'm definitely
going to try them out with regards to this.
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Bruno Medeiros - Software Engineer
