Re: [Xen-devel] Xen repository

[Arun Sharma <arun.sharma@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, May 23, 2005 at 08:47:34AM +0100, Ian Pratt wrote:
> cogito (the renamed git) looks pretty 'raw' at the moment. I did of
> playing around with mercurial last night and was impressed with how much
> functionality it has in just 2k lines of python.

I'm impressed with mercurial's functionality and compactness too. At
this point, the developers seem to be more interested in getting the
core functionality right as opposed to getting the UI right (hg history
shows history in chronological as opposed to reverse chronological order
for eg).

> One option is to just have a public CVS repo, and then everyone can use
> whatever SCM tool they prefer as pretty much everything has an 'import
> from CVS' feature. The only dowsnide to this is CVS's inability to
> represent the current branch structure.

I think there are multiple problems here:

a) How to represent the current bk info without losing information until
   we solve (b) below?
b) How to transistion to a different source control system that a large
   percentage of the devel community uses?
c) How do read-mostly users get their updates?

I'm thinking the answers are:

a) mercurial
b) None yet.
c) CVS

        -Arun

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