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Date:      Thu, 31 Jan 2008 01:03:22 -0800
From:      Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>
To:        "Aryeh M. Friedman" <aryeh.friedman@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, Adrian Penisoara <ady@freebsd.ady.ro>
Subject:   Re: [OT] Q: what would you choose for a VCS today
Message-ID:  <47A18EDA.4040501@elischer.org>
In-Reply-To: <47A1700B.3090406@gmail.com>
References:  <78cb3d3f0801302245v2183c613t6ecdd9acebbe9ef7@mail.gmail.com> <47A1700B.3090406@gmail.com>

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Aryeh M. Friedman wrote:
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> Adrian Penisoara wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>>   Side-topic, if you bear with me: if you were to choose again what to use
>> as source revision control system (VCS) from today's offerings, what would
>> you choose to maintain FreeBSD's sources or a side-off project tracking
>> FreeBSD as base that would allow better teams cooperation and easy code
>> merging between projects/branches ?

I'm having to use mercurial.
I'm not really enjoying it.
works ok for small projects. BSD is a bit big for it.
doe work foe offline editing, but loses all your BSD history.

probably SVK is the way to go from what I hear.


>>
>>   For the moment I am thinking that the top contenders would be Bazaar and
>> Mercurial but I would like to know other (developer) opinions.
>>
> Aegis.... aegis.sf.net and devel/aegis... to get it to compile you
> will need to apply a patch I will send you if you want (and/or use the
> yet to be committed devel/aegis-devel which does the patch at the cost
> of failing portlint [installs correctly and all that but has some
> minor issues that prevent committing as of yet]).... currently I am
> working with the aegis developers so none of the hacks (plus a few
> other things) are not needed (i.e. no special cases needed for
> freebsd)... to others reading this is going to be the primary
> cms/vms/vcs for ports 2.0
> 
> 
> - --
> Aryeh M. Friedman
> FloSoft Systems, Java Tool Developers
> Developer, not business, friendly
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> 
>     "Free software != Free beer"
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> Blog:
>   
> http://www.flosoft-systems.com/flosoft_systems_community/blogs/aryeh/index.php
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