[Psi-devel] Subversion repository

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On Thu, Nov 09, 2006 at 04:25:31PM +0000, Kevin Smith wrote:
> On 9 Nov 2006, at 16:03, Daniel Henninger wrote:
> > Hi Remko!  I'm just a tad curious, what things is subversion missing
> > that darcs has?  (I know darcs has the thing where it shows you each
> > patch one by one and the explanation associated with it ... i really
> > like that as I've always wished subversion would auto-show you change
> > logs upon update)  I'm not arguing for or against either, I'm just
> > curious what neat things darcs has.  =)
> 
> I'm more of a fan of the distributed model rather than the  
> centralised one, so that's one thing in darcs' favour. Cherry picking  
> of patches is something that's quite useful.
> 

Just a bit why i like the distributed nature and the ability to cherry pick
as someone who just follows psi and sends a small patch every one in a while. 

cherry picking is a real nice thing. I often just pull some specific patch
to see if it fixes something without needing to recompile all the other
stuff and i often skip patches that have a chance to conflict with one of
my local patches and sort them out later.

and one thing that's really nice it that i can record local patches and
darcs does the right thing in most of the cases and i can just use the same
checkout to do some work that might be accepted into mainline.

if i would have to use a cvs like system (AFAIK svn has no improvments to
cvs in this matter) it would be a pain to keep my local patches and keeping
up with psi development would be much more pain...
(Most of my local patches are small workarounds and hack not suitable for
mainline)


 - Martin H.