Brief article on benchmarks of Python repository with leading DVCSen

[Russel Winder]

On Fri, 2009-02-13 at 16:24 +1300, Talden wrote:
[ . . . ]
> The IDE has more information when performing a refactor than Git has
> when trying to detect renames.  The IDE has a starting state and a
> user gesture and produces changes forward of this point, noting
> renames as it goes.  The user may make more changes before committing.

And don't forget that IDEs (well Eclipse and IntelliJ IDEA certainly, I
am not sure about others) have an AST of the code so there can be a lot
of reflection on the code.   VCSs tend not to worry about content and
and having an AST for the content ;-)

[ . . . ]

> Yes the IDEs do a lot of the grunt work for you.  If they didn't, hand
> editing all of the the verbosity of java during these refactors would
> make a grown man cry.

Renaming variables, functions, classes, etc. may be easier for some in
and IDE, but there are tools and techniques for doing this sanely
without.  Well at least on Ubuntu, Solaris, Mac OS X, etc.  On Windwoes
you probably need Cygwin.

However this is getting a bit OT for this list.  Not to mention drifting
far from the original posting.

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