Joost van der Sluis wrote: > > That has nothing to do with it. (With Git you would also have to use a > local command to use this branch/part)
I was simply enlightening Bee that I know how he feels and that it would have been easier (less effort) to test various branches with a tool that supports branch workflow much better. git checkout fcl-web_joost That is all that would be required and the branch will be ready for use in 1-2 seconds. And then when I am done playing, I do 'git checkout master' and within 1-2 seconds I am back to the default Trunk development. No network access required. Alternatively, if 'fcl-web_joost' branch was only on your system, I could import that branch into the rest of my Lazarus development by doing the following: git pull git://<URL_to_Joost> Git would automatically detect that somewhere back in history we had the same parent commit, and would then ONLY download the actual changes (commits) you made. With SVN, I need to use a separate directory and download the WHOLE branch, even the files you didn't modify. Alternatively, I have to use 'svn switch' which means again it downloads the whole branch, but that also means I lost my "trunk" branch which I will have to download again at a later date after I played with your branch. It's because of this screwed-up mentality of SVN branches that I never bother to try other developers branches. This leads to untested features and valuable feedback to the developer of that branch - something I think you will agree with. Just like Bee Jay said, it's too much effort (and a waist of internet bandwidth). Joost, I did not mean to offend you or your work in any way, I'm simply wanted to point out what a more modern SCM tool can do, and with the hope that "maybe" (a big maybe I know) one day you guys will see the light - just like you did before when you guys moved from CVS to SubVersion. Times change, and so does software. What was the best tool for the job 7 years ago, is probably not the best tool today. Regards, - Graeme - -- fpGUI Toolkit - a cross-platform GUI toolkit using Free Pascal http://opensoft.homeip.net/fpgui/ -- _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus