[Click] distributed source control

[Bart Braem]

On Thursday 05 July 2007 19:46, Eddie Kohler wrote:
> I would like to move away from Click's current anonymous CVS based
> development model to a distributed source control system.  This would
> let people maintain public branches of their own.  I am leaning towards
> "git", the tool originally developed for Linux.
>
> http://git.or.cz/
>
> Any complaints or comments?  Speak now!

Hi Eddie,

Can I ask why you want a distributed system? 
I really like the idea of moving away from CVS, the advantages of using it are 
starting to fade quickly, compared to other solutions available today. 
But I don't like the idea of using a distributed system. Of course the 
advantage is that separate people can use their own repositories. But then 
the integration with the Click "core" will get harder when API changes are 
made. Repository owners will have to indicate compatible Click versions, I'd 
think.
But I might be too old-fashioned here, does anyone have experience with 
synchronization of source repositories? Does this work, is it hard to keep up 
with the core repository?
Currently for some internal projects we are using SVN and combined with 
TortoiseSVN even newbies can perfectly use it. But perhaps access permissions 
will be harder to manage than in distributed systems.

A second remark: please consider something more usable than git. To me it 
seemed really hard to use, last time I tried to use it. 
I do not know whether mercurial or svk or ... are more userfriendly, but I 
feel that we should avoid building a barrier for people to use the latest and 
greatest Click release.

I'd like to join the other in thanking you for Click, it really helps me!

Just my 2 eurocents of course,
Bart
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Bart Braem
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