Óscar Fuentes <[email protected]> writes:

> ..  There is a
> annoyance with coding systems (Emacs asks for the coding system when DVC
> diffs and the file contains non-ASCII characters) but I guess it is
> fixable too.

The monotone backend for DVC has some work-arounds for this; see
lisp/xmtn-dvc.el xmtn--revision-get-file-helper. We should consider
moving this into the front end.

> My exprience with DVC is quite limited, so I'll aks:
>
> Does it contain serious bugs?

I use the monotone and bazaar backends; monotone extensively for work,
bazaar for DVC itself.

I'm continuously working on the monotone backend, making it better. It
has no serious bugs currently. The bazaar backend also has no serious
bugs that I know of.

> Do you recommend to *not* use it?

No, it's the best front end for distributed VCS that I'm aware of. But
then, I'm addicted to Emacs in the first place.

> Are you really interested on patches? (I mean, have DVC a user base so
> the patches are useful for them?)

I have no idea what the DVC user base might be. I've never gotten
email requesting help or information about how to use the monotone
backend.

> The new VC implementation in Emacs 23 is very complete on some areas
> (and totally lacking on others). It is okay to send patches wich
> delegates DVC features on VC functions, when DVC is buggy and VC does
> the right thing?

I think that makes sense in general, but I'd be surprised if it
actually works; Emacs VC and DVC have very different paradigms.

-- 
-- Stephe

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