[TxMt] svnserve or apache2 on Leopard?

[Richard Dyce]

Well, my reading of it is that Mercurial *is* the current open source  
choice - at least as far as Eben Moglen is concerned ;-)

http://www.softwarefreedom.org/news/2006/sep/19/mercurial/

Not sure if that's a technically good reason though....

Seems straightforward enough to use though. So far. ;-)

On 10 Nov 2007, at 17:31, s.ross wrote:

> Granted svn can be a pain to set up, but is Mercurial generally  
> accepted by the Open Source community? Right now, if someone wants  
> to pass around a new Textmate bundle or Rails plugin, they point to  
> an svn repo and the deal is done. I haven't looked into Mercurial  
> too carefully, but if it's better and can be accessed by svn users  
> transparently (riiiigggt :) then it could be a godsend.
>
> Any thoughts on that?
>
> On Nov 9, 2007, at 7:24 PM, 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 ;)
>>
>> —Thomas Aylott – subtleGradient—
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