From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 3590 invoked by alias); 18 Sep 2009 12:05:48 -0000 Received: (qmail 3581 invoked by uid 22791); 18 Sep 2009 12:05:47 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,SPF_PASS X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from hagrid.ecoscentric.com (HELO mail.ecoscentric.com) (212.13.207.197) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Fri, 18 Sep 2009 12:05:43 +0000 Received: from localhost (hagrid.ecoscentric.com [127.0.0.1]) by mail.ecoscentric.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id BFE402F78009; Fri, 18 Sep 2009 13:05:40 +0100 (BST) Received: from mail.ecoscentric.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (hagrid.ecoscentric.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id JXdf9QyQzuOm; Fri, 18 Sep 2009 13:05:39 +0100 (BST) Message-ID: <4AB37791.7090601@ecoscentric.com> Date: Fri, 18 Sep 2009 12:05:00 -0000 From: Alex Schuilenburg User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 (Windows/20090812) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Sergei Organov CC: ecos-discuss@sources.redhat.com References: <4AB24B97.4040204@ecoscentric.com> <4AB2A6DA.4080005@jifvik.org> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes 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] Re: eCos VCS switch X-SW-Source: 2009-09/txt/msg00154.txt.bz2 Sergei Organov wrote on 2009-09-18 11:40: > Jonathan Larmour writes: > > >> 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. >> > > git rebase > > is my favorite and is very handy to maintain changes w.r.t official > repository to be then contributed back. BTW, rebasing is what CVS > actually does with your local changes when you do 'cvs update'. Except > git rebase is much more safe and convenient. I can't tell if hg or bzr > already have something similar though as they seem to borrow features > from each other rather quickly. > hg rebase [--source rev | --base rev] [--dest rev] | [--collapse] | [--continue] | [--abort] | [--keep] The rebase extension is distributed as part of the standard mercurial release :-) As I said, I have not found any additional functionality provided by git that you cannot do in mercurial ;-) My favourite hg extension is forest which allows you to create a single repository consisting of several other repositories, kind of like CVS modules. In other words, you can work with all the repositories, or just with subsets. This means that multiple changes can be push/pulled into/from multiple repositories, using a single standard hg push/pull commands, as well as all the usual hg commands and functionality. I have not heard of equivalent functionality in git ;-) -- Alex Schuilenburg >>>> Visit us at ESC-Boston http://www.embedded.com/esc/boston <<<< >>>> Sep 22-23 on Stand 226 at Hynes Convention Center, Boston <<<< **** Visit us at ESC-UK http://www.embedded.co.uk **** **** Oct 7-8 on Stand 433 at FIVE ISC, Farnborough **** -- Before posting, please read the FAQ: http://ecos.sourceware.org/fom/ecos and search the list archive: http://ecos.sourceware.org/ml/ecos-discuss