I have to agree that the DVCS I tried (Hg and Git) all are quite... let's be honest: crappy (on Windows). I also tried to work on my own branches using git, I tried to do Wine syncs using a special Wine branch in a local git repo. All failed, everything was non trivial, and required a lot more work.
Subversion just works. Also, a git mirror is provided, so that when the trunk is locked for some reason, devs still have an option to: a) create their own branch in SVN, work in a branch, do anything they like b) create their own git fork, work in it, publish it, get famous/ blamed, anything they like
There are no restrictions really, especially having in mind that our SVN repo is already clonable by everyone, so everyone can have 10+ years of ReactOS hard work on a DVD disk.
I don't really see any need to switch our VCS to anything else.
WBR, Aleksey Bragin.
On Nov 29, 2009, at 1:49 PM, Timo Kreuzer wrote:
Hi,
I worked with TortoiseHg some time, I thought I could get used to it, but to no avail. From my experience, I can only say that almost *everything* is non trivial or doesn't work Apart from the shitty interface. I just tested the latest version again, it's completely unintuitive, and merging gave me even more conflicts than I would have expected with SVN.
My experience with using a branch with TSVN is that there's no problem. Even merging hundreds of revisions from trunk to the branch worked quite well with rarely any conflicts and it's done with a few clicks.
We don't need a different versioning system, we need a better source organisation. Independency of modules. Independency from the tools/ sdk. That would also help with working on branches.
Just my 2 cents, Timo
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