Re: [python-committers] Survey about DVCSs compared to svn

2009-02-28 Thread Christian Heimes
Nick Coghlan schrieb: > Georg Brandl wrote: >> It doesn't only *feel* slow, it *is* slow. And not only compared to merging >> with a DVCS, which doesn't need network. Half a minute to merge a three-line >> change is not productive. > > Don't forget that *blocking* a revision with svnmerge seems

Re: [python-committers] Survey about DVCSs compared to svn

2009-02-28 Thread Martin v. Löwis
Antoine Pitrou wrote: > Le dimanche 01 mars 2009 à 00:11 +0100, "Martin v. Löwis" a écrit : >> That's why I keep arguing that the committers making the original >> commits should also merge their changes, individually, into the >> respective branches. That way >> - commits become separate, and reve

Re: [python-committers] Survey about DVCSs compared to svn

2009-02-28 Thread Antoine Pitrou
Le dimanche 01 mars 2009 à 00:11 +0100, "Martin v. Löwis" a écrit : > That's why I keep arguing that the committers making the original > commits should also merge their changes, individually, into the > respective branches. That way > - commits become separate, and reverting them becomes possible

Re: [python-committers] Survey about DVCSs compared to svn

2009-02-28 Thread Martin v. Löwis
> Frankly, there are very few people who routinely (like Benjamin) or even only > sometimes (like me) merge larger amounts of stuff between our four branches. > While that's no surprise, given how clumsy svnmerge makes it, others shouldn't > just dismiss the merging problem with "we have svnmerge".

Re: [python-committers] Survey about DVCSs compared to svn

2009-02-28 Thread Nick Coghlan
Georg Brandl wrote: > It doesn't only *feel* slow, it *is* slow. And not only compared to merging > with a DVCS, which doesn't need network. Half a minute to merge a three-line > change is not productive. Don't forget that *blocking* a revision with svnmerge seems to take nearly as long as actua

Re: [python-committers] Survey about DVCSs compared to svn

2009-02-28 Thread Georg Brandl
Antoine Pitrou schrieb: > Le jeudi 26 février 2009 à 17:10 +0100, M.-A. Lemburg a écrit : >> This is probably a matter of Internet connection bandwidth then. > > Not really. > To give a point of comparison, when I clone (using Mercurial) the Python > trunk at http://code.python.org/hg/trunk, it ta

Re: [python-committers] Survey about DVCSs compared to svn

2009-02-28 Thread Martin v. Löwis
> What on earth happened between May and June 2008? The number of > "visits" went down dramatically (at least 3x), and stayed at that > level ever since. As we don't have the log files anymore, it's hard to tell. My guess is that it is some automated procedure that completed or got turned off. For

Re: [python-committers] Survey about DVCSs compared to svn

2009-02-28 Thread Christian Heimes
Nick Coghlan wrote: > Bob Ippolito wrote: >> I have more or less the same opinion as Guido regarding svn merge. It >> sucks. We bump up against problems with svn merge tracking on a >> regular basis at work. We'd have switched to a DVCS by now if it >> wasn't for tool support (trac mostly) and the

Re: [python-committers] Survey about DVCSs compared to svn

2009-02-28 Thread Martin v. Löwis
s...@pobox.com wrote: > Martin> My own personal experience tells me git and bzr are much worse > Martin> than subversion (each in different respects). > > Perhaps you could relay these shortcomings to Brett or edit them into the > PEP directly. As I said: I refrain from commenting at this

Re: [python-committers] Survey about DVCSs compared to svn

2009-02-28 Thread Thomas Heller
Brett Cannon schrieb: > I had a long reply all written out, but instead I decided to discard it so > as to not continue to drag this discussion out. Why? The DVCS PEP is not > even finished yet! > > Can you guys please let me finish the PEP before you start worrying about > whether we are going to

Re: [python-committers] Survey about DVCSs compared to svn

2009-02-28 Thread skip
Martin> My own personal experience tells me git and bzr are much worse Martin> than subversion (each in different respects). Perhaps you could relay these shortcomings to Brett or edit them into the PEP directly. Skip ___ python-committers mail

Re: [python-committers] Survey about DVCSs compared to svn

2009-02-28 Thread Guido van Rossum
On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 1:35 AM, "Martin v. Löwis" wrote: > Fredrik Lundh wrote: >> Btw, one of my concerns is that a move away from Svn breaks the process >> for people who pull sources from Svn to build their own Pythons. I know >> a few teams that do that, and switching to another system isn't

Re: [python-committers] Survey about DVCSs compared to svn

2009-02-28 Thread Antoine Pitrou
Le samedi 28 février 2009 à 10:09 +0100, Fredrik Lundh a écrit : > What's Hg:s story on Svn integration? To what extent can you use it > with a Svn master repo? hgsubversion is supposed to allow bidirectional integration: http://www.selenic.com/mercurial/wiki/index.cgi/HgSubversion If you just ne

Re: [python-committers] Survey about DVCSs compared to svn

2009-02-28 Thread Nick Coghlan
Bob Ippolito wrote: > I have more or less the same opinion as Guido regarding svn merge. It > sucks. We bump up against problems with svn merge tracking on a > regular basis at work. We'd have switched to a DVCS by now if it > wasn't for tool support (trac mostly) and the fact that we use a lot > o

Re: [python-committers] Survey about DVCSs compared to svn

2009-02-28 Thread Bob Ippolito
Why not add a requirement to the PEP such that if a DVCS is chosen then a read-only SVN mirror or gateway should be maintained? Would that be a reasonable compromise? I have more or less the same opinion as Guido regarding svn merge. It sucks. We bump up against problems with svn merge tracking on

Re: [python-committers] Survey about DVCSs compared to svn

2009-02-28 Thread Martin v. Löwis
Fredrik Lundh wrote: > Btw, one of my concerns is that a move away from Svn breaks the process > for people who pull sources from Svn to build their own Pythons. I know > a few teams that do that, and switching to another system isn't just an > apt-get away for them. Do we have enough log info to b

Re: [python-committers] Survey about DVCSs compared to svn

2009-02-28 Thread Fredrik Lundh
Btw, one of my concerns is that a move away from Svn breaks the process for people who pull sources from Svn to build their own Pythons. I know a few teams that do that, and switching to another system isn't just an apt-get away for them. Do we have enough log info to be able to determine how commo

Re: [python-committers] Survey about DVCSs compared to svn

2009-02-28 Thread Fredrik Lundh
What's Hg:s story on Svn integration? To what extent can you use it with a Svn master repo? (Btw, I would have said that Git is probably the one that's moving the fastest right now, and where the most interesting work is being done - but their Windows story is a tragedy (at least last time I check