-----Original Message----- From: John Cliff [mailto:john.cliff@...400...] Sent: 01 April, 2009 13:01 To: Krzysztof Kosiński Cc: inkscape-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Inkscape-devel] Inkscape DVCS - was: Re: GSoC 2009 - Projecthandling in the repository
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On 1 Apr 2009, at 01:11, Krzysztof Kosiński <tweenk.pl@...400...> wrote:
Jon A. Cruz wrote:
The GUI tool problem is lack of file level tools, as opposed to whole branch tracking. TortoiseBZR will give you file operations when you right-click in the desktop windows, but that only solves some use cases. Each time I've used Tortoise in the past I would also have to install TkCVS to get the rest of the GUI functionality I need.
I'm not sure that GUI tools are necessary to use something. They can drastically improve productivity in many cases, but I don't think they're fundamental, especially for something like a VCS. We're talking about programmers here; are Windows programmers not capable of using the command line? Our Windows build tool is command line only!
We're very capable of using a command line, but why should we ditch a nice friendly ui that's integrated into explorer?
I ditched Tortoise SVN because it was active all the time and locked directories. I have nothing negative to say about command line SVN.
On top of that, if you are not a project admin, you're only going to work on one or two branches most of the time, so it should be completely manageable without a GUI.
I would opt for the following solution: the students should use Bazaar in conjunction with Launchpad, while the rest can use SVN as usual until we decide that Bazaar is ready for general use. (This option of a peaceful transition is another argument in favor of bzr.) Merges of student code would be done by using Launchpad's bzr-svn support. Ted Gould already works in this manner and could provide the needed know-how.
And no offence to ted but the bzr-svn thing is the reason why all the commit historys got so screwed up a while back. If it can screw with the svn copy like that I'm not sure giving that to a bunch of new programmers is such a smart idea.
Regards, Krzysztof Kosiński
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