[TxMt] svnserve or apache2 on Leopard?

Richard Dyce dd at dyce.com
Sat Nov 10 09:51:14 UTC 2007


One thing - daft question probably - but mercurial will tie into  
TextMate, yes?

On 10 Nov 2007, at 09:50, Richard Dyce wrote:

> Righto, I'll take a look at Mercurial.
>
> (I don't think I could face using a piece of software called  
> 'Git'.... it's a slang expression in the UK, and the formal  
> definition is a 'pregnant camel' IIRC...)
>
> Thanks,
>
> R
>
> On 10 Nov 2007, at 03:24, Thomas Aylott - subtleGradient wrote:
>
>> On Nov 9, 2007, at 5:07 PM, Ramanan Sivaranjan wrote:
>>
>>>> like the 'just' in that sentence... ;-)
>>>> ... I'll see how I get on.
>>>
>>> You may want to check out Git or Mercurial.  It's a lot easier to  
>>> get going I find.  Setting up repositories with SVN seems overly  
>>> tedious.
>>>
>>> Ramanan.
>>
>>
>> Unless you have a specific reason for needing to use a Subversion  
>> server, I always recommend Mercurial.
>> It's WAY easier for single-user projects.
>> Git is better suited for seriously massive codebases, but it's a  
>> bit more complex in day-to-day life.
>>
>> My reason I've stuck with svn for so long is that I use Dreamhost  
>> and they offer one-click HTTP shared subversion repo creation.
>>
>> I'm planning on moving all my projects over to Mercurial  
>> eventually, but I've been too busy with the actual projects  
>> themselves ;)




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