From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 24096 invoked by alias); 17 Sep 2009 21:15:14 -0000 Received: (qmail 24081 invoked by uid 22791); 17 Sep 2009 21:15:13 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.3 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from virtual.bogons.net (HELO virtual.bogons.net) (193.178.223.136) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Thu, 17 Sep 2009 21:15:09 +0000 Received: from jifvik.dyndns.org (jifvik.dyndns.org [85.158.45.40]) by virtual.bogons.net (8.10.2+Sun/8.11.2) with ESMTP id n8HLF7419730 for ; Thu, 17 Sep 2009 22:15:07 +0100 (BST) Received: from [172.31.1.126] (neelix.jifvik.org [172.31.1.126]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by jifvik.dyndns.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1606D3FEB; Thu, 17 Sep 2009 22:15:07 +0100 (BST) Message-ID: <4AB2A6DA.4080005@jifvik.org> Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2009 21:15:00 -0000 From: Jonathan Larmour User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.8-1.1.fc4 (X11/20060501) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Alex Schuilenburg Cc: eCos discussion References: <4AB24B97.4040204@ecoscentric.com> In-Reply-To: <4AB24B97.4040204@ecoscentric.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mailing-List: contact ecos-discuss-help@ecos.sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: ecos-discuss-owner@ecos.sourceware.org Subject: Re: [ECOS] eCos VCS switch X-SW-Source: 2009-09/txt/msg00142.txt.bz2 Alex Schuilenburg wrote: > >>A switch of the public CVS repository to Mercurial would be a major >>improvement. >> > > Agreed. My initial findings are also that mercurial is the preferred > solution. It is not as powerful as git, or even as fast, By "more powerful", do you mean git allows you to do anything of significance that hg/bzr doesn't? I didn't think there was from my own checking, but I'm prepared to be corrected. Or by any chance do you mean that it's more powerful/fast if you have the ability to remember which of the gazillion different git commands to use with precisely which set of arcane options. Then it's a speedy one-liner! Personally I would need a lot of convincing to use git. Or more precisely, to make the eCos community with its breadth of users with varying experience do so. I think it would raise the bar to using eCos in a very negative way. The only thing that might ameliorate it would be something like http://code.google.com/p/tortoisegit/ but it seems like early days for that, I'm not impressed by their webpage, it seems to have restricted capabilities (but I may well be wrong on this count), and at best it's playing catch-up with the others. Jifl -- --["No sense being pessimistic, it wouldn't work anyway"]-- Opinions==mine -- Before posting, please read the FAQ: http://ecos.sourceware.org/fom/ecos and search the list archive: http://ecos.sourceware.org/ml/ecos-discuss