A not so idle thought

[Russel Winder]

On Mon, 2008-10-13 at 20:35 +0100, Paul Moore wrote:

[ . . . ]

> > Local lightweight checkouts can also be a useful tool for very quick
> > experiments.
> 
> I never got used to these. Surely the fact that commits happen against
> the master means that they are *not* useful unless you are happy to do
> your whole experiment without committing?

This is exactly the use case I use it for -- trivial experimentation
where commit is not needed but you can compare with the base (saves lots
of melding).

> > As others have pointed out, whilst I am a Bazaar and Git user, I haven't
> > used Mercurial enough to contemplate pontificating -- so I had better
> > stop :-)
> 
> No problem. Personally, I found that on first impressions, Mercurial
> and Bazaar were pretty similar. But as you dig, subtle terminology and
> conceptual differences start to become quite confusing and it gets
> hard to see what's the same and what's different.

And the worst and bloodiest wars are fought over the smallest
differences.  Large differences led to less bloodshed since it is easier
to decide which tribe to join.  So in this case the CVCS vs DVCS
argument is easy to decide, but the Mercurial/Bazaar/Git is a much
harder choice.

-- 
Russel.
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