[Dev] Subversion, Mercurial, ?

[Geoff Lane]

Mercurial is only one of many of the Distributed Revision Control 
systems out there.
See also: git, GNU Arch. bzr, darcs, etc
(I've played mostly with git and bzr, hadn't heard of Mercurial until now)

None of them have the idea of a centralized repository.
There are some really good reasons to use them. Such as having a very 
active development community that maintains a lot of patches that are 
not part of the core.

But hardly anyone uses these, so people generally don't know them well.

I would start out with goals/requirements and then implement that with 
the simplest solution. The biggest problem that the DRCS systems solve 
is one of merging issues that come up from having huge numbers of 
branches. That and the 'coding on a plane' issue. If you don't have 
those problems then it's probably just more work?

Frank Cohen wrote:
> PushToTest plans to release TestMaker 5 this week. We wanted to move 
> from CVS to Subversion after the TestMaker 5 release. A blog by 
> Charlie Nutter at Sun's JRuby group makes me wonder if we should move 
> to Mercurial instead. Any feedback, opinions, questions are welcome.
>
> Please see:
> http://headius.blogspot.com/2007/08/business-case-for-supporting-jython.html 
>
>
> -Frank
>
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> Frank Cohen, PushToTest, http://www.PushToTest.com, phone 408 374 7426
> TestMaker: The open-source SOA test automation tool
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