[Adium-devl] Version control

[Joshua Lock]

On 08/10/2007, Chris Forsythe <chris at adiumx.com> wrote:
> >> Over the summer, I had to use darcs to fetch another project's
> >> repository (right now, every project seems to have their own DVCS
> >> program). This was just as simple to use as svn, and just as fast.
> >> This was read-only though, I don't know how good the developer side
> >> of it is.
> >
> > Is darcs fast enough?
> >
>
> Let's find out. Do you have time to make a feature grid/suckage level
> grid against all the popular vcs solution? Even the non-distributed
> kind?

Darcs has a well documented bug[1][2][3] to do with conflict
resolution while merging in large repositories.
It's being worked on but AFAIK it's not fixed yet, which is a shame.

Josh

1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darcs#Bugs
2. http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2007-August/011226.html
3. http://wiki.darcs.net/DarcsWiki/ConflictMisery?highlight=%28conflict%29

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Joshua Lock
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