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Re: Moving to an alternate VCS
On Wed, 2005-02-09 at 10:15 +1100, Ben Elliston wrote:
> Daniel Berlin <dberlin@dberlin.org> writes:
>
> > > So would you say that the principal reason you want to move is because
> > > tagging is slow? There are many reasons to switch, and I just want to
> > > make sure that I understand what is driving this.
>
> > 1. tagging is slow
> > 2. branching gets slow (IE checkouts from branches) for long lived
> > branches,
> > 3. merging into branches is more of a pain in the ass than it should be
> > (we should simply be able to say "bring in changes between global
> > revision number x and global revision number y, into this tree, instead
> > of trying to specify it on a per-file basis)
> > 4, Everything else is more or less sugar (the fact that it allows
> > offline diffs, etc)
>
> 0. changesets (definitely not sugar!)
>
> This would be most beneficial aspect of a more modern VCS (to my
> mind). It makes automated regression searching so much simpler, for
> instance.
>
> Ben
Yes, i forgot about that, i apologize.
Pinning down a regression based on a global revision number is much
easier than trying to do it by date and then guessing at a commit from
around that time.