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 ;)
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