On Thu, 2008-06-05 at 15:40 -0400, didier deshommes wrote: > On Thu, Jun 5, 2008 at 2:36 PM, Glenn H Tarbox, PhD <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > So, I propose there's a misunderstanding of Hg and clone vs. branch. I > > claim that branching is a trivial operation, switching between branches > > is fast, and that the entire point of DVCS is lost with the clone > > operation. > > Yes, branching is trivial but I still prefer cloning. I've worked with > both methods of development (branch or clone) and I prefer cloning > because: > - I don't need to think which branch I'm working on at any given moment. > - I don't have worry about merging my changes back into main at some > point in time. I suspect this is more psychological than anything.
I address your first point in another post... but basically you've gotta worry that often with symlinks. I bet we could write a thingy in .bashrc which splashed which branch you were on.... and I'd argue that the merge is trivial and would help determine if you've introduced a collision with the mainline which you didn't anticipate. > > But then again, I found branching to be useful for moderate-to-massive > rewrites and the work I've done on sage has mainly been bug fixes > (which are mostly small-ish rewrites). > <snip> > > I think you are wrong about git not becoming mainstream. Git is being > made more and more popular and hip because of http://github.com . It's > a really impressive web app. This is the "killer app" for git, just as > the Launchpad is the "killer app" for bzr. This is the kind of app > that Hg is missing and it's glaring. I'd love to be wrong on this one... I personally prefer git for many reasons but mostly because at the "plumbing" its simply better (IMHO). but, wow, way to write clear and understandable documentation.... NOT!!! :-) and the porcelain just ain't all that great yet... it could be... just isn't. > > On Thu, Jun 5, 2008 at 3:12 PM, William Stein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I was hoping you could write a little more about the sense in which you > > see that hg is giving up ground to bzr. Are project switching from hg > > to bzr? Is this just a feature comparison? > > My impression is that more new projects are being started in bzr > because of its nice integration with Launchpad.net. > > didier > > > -- Glenn H. Tarbox, PhD || 206-494-0819 || [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good you'll have to ram them down peoples throats" -- Howard Aiken --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
