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Date:      Sat, 18 Sep 2010 08:51:39 +0200
From:      Dominic Fandrey <kamikaze@bsdforen.de>
To:        perryh@pluto.rain.com
Cc:        jhell@DataIX.net, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: autoconf update
Message-ID:  <4C94617B.3080702@bsdforen.de>
In-Reply-To: <4c93f602.pzTXVEQ%2B3q2cRA23%perryh@pluto.rain.com>
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On 18/09/2010 01:13, perryh@pluto.rain.com wrote:
> jhell <jhell@DataIX.net> wrote:
> 
>> ... Mercurial being the distributed version control that it is
>> allows you to clone, make the changes you need to the clone test it
>> thoroughly and then either push or pull them to the main tree ...
> 
> At the risk of starting the VCS variant of the vi vs emacs wars :)
> why Mercurial (rather than, say, GIT or SVK)?
> 
> And no, I have nothing against Mercurial.  I don't know _any_
> distributed VCS well enough to have an opinion of which would
> be best suited.

There is great documentation and re-education material
(for SVN users) out there for Mercurial.

But this is not going to happen any way. The ports are still stuck
with _CVS_.

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