Re: [OT] VCS tools

2011-04-29 Thread Martin Schöön
On 2011-04-28, Ben Finney ben+pyt...@benfinney.id.au wrote: Martin Schöön martin.sch...@gmail.com writes: This has been a pretty informative thread so far. Please keep it coming. I am a hardware development guy and do very little software development. I have been vaguely aware of tools for

Re: [OT] VCS tools (was Development tools and practices for Pythonistas)

2011-04-28 Thread Martin Schöön
This has been a pretty informative thread so far. Please keep it coming. I am a hardware development guy and do very little software development. I have been vaguely aware of tools for version control but inspired by this thread I have started looking at Mercurial. My humble contribution (from my

Re: [OT] VCS tools

2011-04-28 Thread Ben Finney
Martin Schöön martin.sch...@gmail.com writes: This has been a pretty informative thread so far. Please keep it coming. I am a hardware development guy and do very little software development. I have been vaguely aware of tools for version control but inspired by this thread I have started

Re: [OT] VCS tools

2011-04-28 Thread Tim Chase
On 04/28/2011 04:50 PM, Ben Finney wrote: This has been a pretty informative thread so far. Please keep it coming. I am a hardware development guy and do very little software development. I have been vaguely aware of tools for version control but inspired by this thread I have started looking at

Re: [OT] VCS tools

2011-04-28 Thread Daniel Kluev
On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 8:50 AM, Ben Finney ben+pyt...@benfinney.id.au wrote: Martin Schöön martin.sch...@gmail.com writes: I seriously recommend anyone looking for a modern VCS to give Bazaar a decent trial. It's the one I've found newcomers learn most easily, and it's astoundingly flexible

Re: [OT] VCS tools (was Development tools and practices for Pythonistas)

2011-04-27 Thread Tim Chase
On 04/27/2011 04:24 AM, Jean-Michel Pichavant wrote: Ben Finney wrote: Mercurial – are the ones to choose from. Anoyone recommending a VCS tool that has poor merging support (such as Subversion or, heaven help us, CVS) is doing the newcomer a disservice. True enough. But the modern crop of