In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "David Cournapeau" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Jan 5, 2008 1:30 AM, Charles R Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > I like Mercurial and use it a lot, but I'm not convinced we have enough > > developers and code to justify the pain of changing the VCS at this time. > > I don't understand the number of developers argument: on most of the > projects I am working on, I am the only developer, and I much prefer > bzr to svn, although for reasons which are not really relevant to a > project like numpy/scipy. > > > SVN g!enerally works well and has good support on Windows through tortoise. > That's where I don't agree: I don't think svn works really well. As > long as you use it as an history backup, it works ok, but that's it. > The non functional merge makes branching almost useless, reverting > back in time is extremely cumbersome, I am a bit puzzled by the vitriol about merging with svn. svn's built in merge is a joke but svnmerge.py works reasonably well (especially newer versions of svnmerge.py; I use rev 26317 and the version included in the current svn 1.4.6 should be even more recent) I agree that reverting a file to an older versions is clumsy using svn. -- Russell _______________________________________________ Numpy-discussion mailing list Numpy-discussion@scipy.org http://projects.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
