One small technical note: Simon said > That (non-linear history) is IMHO the biggest drawback of DVCS because > that means there is no way to link a particular build to the source > status and you cannot use globally valid build numbers.
In mercurial (Hg) a particular snapshot can be labeled with a tag, and then referred to by that name in the future. This problem and solution is discussed in a tutorial on Mecurial (http://hginit.com/, section on "repository architecture"), precisely for matching the archive state to a software release. I can't speak to any other DVCS package. Terry Therneau ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
