[slime-devel] Re: Mercurial

Steve Morin steve.morin at gmail.com
Wed Mar 5 17:16:54 UTC 2008


Is there really a good reason to switch to a new version control system and
what's
wrong with svn anyway?
Steve

On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 9:08 AM, David Brown <lisp at davidb.org> wrote:

> On Wed, Mar 05, 2008 at 11:52:17AM +0100, Mark Evenson wrote:
>
> > I really like Mercurial compared to git and bzr, as it was the first of
> > this bunch whose instructions I really understood in a brief trial
> period.
> > The need for git to repack archives seems to be a weird design decision
> > (why isn't this done semi-automatically?)
>
> It is done semi-automatically...
>
> There is a lot of "FUD" about how git used to be.  FUD is probably a bit
> too strong, but most of the complaints I see about git aren't true in
> recent versions.
>
> Git is definitely harder to learn, but I personally feel that it has been
> worth it.  I'm not sure how much it matters for something like Slime,
> though.
>
> David
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