Ondrej Certik wrote: > On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 10:45 PM, David Cournapeau > <da...@ar.media.kyoto-u.ac.jp> wrote: >> Ondrej Certik wrote: >>> It is maybe easier to learn how to work with different clones, but >>> once you start working with lots of patches and you need to reclone >>> all the time, then it's the wrong approach to work, as it takes lots >>> of time to copy the whole repository on the disk.
This is simply wrong. Mercurial uses hard links for cloning a repo that is on the same disk, so it is faster and much more space-efficient than copying the files. But if you do want named branches in a given repo, you can have that also with hg. Granted, it has not always been part of hg, but it is now. Same with rebasing and transplanting. Now, I know that your (speaking to Ondrej) project switched from hg to git, and you have provided some useful insight as to why. I also understand that there are substantive differences between the two, with advantages and disadvantages. But I don't think it follows that numpy (or matplotlib, eventually, I hope) necessarily should move to git if/when a move to a DVCS is decided upon. It is possible that hg might be a better fit--a better compromise--for present *and* *potential* *future* contributors to numpy, scipy, and matplotlib. >> Yes, *I* know how to use git, and I agree with you, I vastly prefer git >> branch handling to bzr branch handling. *I* find working with GUI for >> VCS a real PITA. But I am not the only numpy developer, that's why the >> feedback from people like Josef with a totally different workflow than >> me is valuable - much more than people like us who are unix geeks :) > Speaking to David: is git branch handling vastly preferable to both of the branch styles available in hg? Speaking to Josef: does tortoise-hg provide a satisfactory windows gui, from your standpoint? Eric > Yes, definitely. > > Ondrej > _______________________________________________ > Numpy-discussion mailing list > Numpy-discussion@scipy.org > http://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion _______________________________________________ Numpy-discussion mailing list Numpy-discussion@scipy.org http://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
