2016-03-01 1:06 GMT+01:00 Michael Raskin <7c6f4...@mail.ru>: > > Last time I breaked a thing (and it was recently), it was my commit and > I actually used the resulting binary for some time. Didn't notice the > open dialog was broken. So the question is about price-vs-quality, > testing doesn't always give as much additional information as one would > want… >
Sure, not every error stands out in a cursory check. Just the other day, I pushed back on a commit in master, that made the gradle command show a java help screen (because of it not actually running gradle). An error that would have been easily overlooked by a reviewer just expecting the program to run and spit out some usage information. I actually built a unit test to verify gradle being able to build a test project. Don't know if that's made it into nixos yet. Maybe part of a solution is to educate contributors on how to write automated package tests? I rank reasonableness of notions used in UI as > monotone > mercurial > SVN > git > > I am currently undecided about fossil, although it is definitely in the > left half of the chain. > I guess, I'll have to take a closer look at fossil and monotone. What do you think of darcs? I used mercurial for a little while between SVN and git, back when it was written in python, crashy and slow (probably still is, haha), I think I actually managed to destroy data with it. SVN is just: you know, why would I need a server to do version control? git to me is just like nixos: I might not appreciate all the curly braces and semicolons in particular, but the whole thing being arranged around an immutable core + being super fast + having a large, active community is just too good to be ignored. git commands are built around gotchas, so I will not even try to get > a better frontend, I will just script whatever workflow is considered > acceptable and use the same two scripts to minimize errors. > Do try magit though. People that like to show of their git frontends, get jealous, when I show it to them. And rightfully so. Disclaimer: I do find git's concepts quite acceptable and the gotchas to be manageable, I do think that there would be potential in a tool doing management of patchsets, like apparently darcs or quilt do.
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