Hi, On Jan 31, 2008 6:02 PM, Mike Meyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Thu, 31 Jan 2008 08:45:55 +0200 "Adrian Penisoara" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > Side-topic, if you bear with me: if you were to choose again what to > use > > as source revision control system (VCS) from today's offerings, what > would > > you choose to maintain FreeBSD's sources or a side-off project tracking > > FreeBSD as base that would allow better teams cooperation and easy code > > merging between projects/branches ? > > Pretty much any post-CVS VCS will do that. But if you want a good > merge facility, Perforce's are - well, after getting used to them, > everything else feels like throwing your code against the wall and > hoping the right parts stick. I talked to one of the git developers > about a year ago, and they were thinking about adding a guided merge > inspired by what Perforce does. > > I do trust you on Perforce being a strong contender for the job, but, unfortunately, looking at their licensing terms for OSS projects I do get some second thoughts. Perhaps that's why FreeBSD did not migrate mainstream sources over to P4 yet ;)... Thanks, Adrian Penisoara ROFUG / EnterpriseBSD _______________________________________________ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
