[Opensim-dev] to branch or to break?

[Anders Arnholm]

On Fri, Nov 02, 2007 at 08:51:17AM +0100, Stefan Andersson wrote:

> > One of the things that might help here would be to look into a
> > distributed source control system like mercurial. That would make it
> Distributed source control seems promising; anybody here has real
> experience in working on a 15-dev project with it?

What is the big difference between mercurial and subversion? Subversions
works quite well even is this enviroment i think.

> My immediate black hat reaction is that I don't buy the 'merging is
> easier' bit at all. Diff is still Diff. Also, I'd say that it even

An bigg diff is a big diff and that til stay an big diff. Big diffs are
loot for stuff st undersand and that will be hard how ever you do it.
The keep to keep it workign is merge often, either to the exprimental
brana or into the developemt stream.

> re-re-merged into the official branch, but maybe it's just me not
> having any experience with it.

I have worked in many enviroment from rcs, cvs, subversion to clear
case. All have there nifty stuff and there problems.

/ Balp
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