[Adium-devl] Version Control - To change or not to change? THAT is the question!

[Evan Schoenberg]

On Jan 2, 2008, at 12:27 PM, Peter Hosey wrote:

>> the one caveat would be that you can't do that form of diff for  
>> commits which have been made locally but not pushed, and you'd need  
>> to pull from the server after pushing for the tags to be available.
>
> This all seems like a lot of hackery to get monotonic rev numbers,  
> and it doesn't even completely do the job. Meanwhile, there are  
> other DVCSs (bzr and hg) that provide them natively.

Sure.  I've supported monotone solely out of familiarity.  Really,  
while it is somewhat nice to use the same version control system as  
libpurple, I'm not sure of an actual advantage to it besides not  
requiring folks who want to hack on it to have a second tool  
installed.  We should pick the best tool given the knowledge we have  
and go with that.

Adding some data to the mix for our comparisons: http://www.ada-france.org/debian/distributed-version-control-systems.html 
  has a brief summary of the architecture and a comparison of the  
storage efficiency of CVS, Meta-CVS, bzr, mercurial, monotone, and  
cogito.

-Evan