On Wed, Feb 04, 2009 at 11:42:14AM +0100, Michal Marek wrote:
Bernhard Walle napsal(a):
My point is that even hg is too complicated for packaging. IMO every DVCS is too complicated for the packager that maintains two or three packages. It's easier to get an error when you commit and the remote copy has been updated than having to merge afterwards.
I'm quite sure that this will be the reaction if you switch to git/hg. Because it was the reaction in a project where we switched from svn to hg ("Why can't we just continue with svn, it was simple"). But I cannot proof it.
:-). When we switched the SUSE kernel package repo from cvs to git, a few people weren't entirely happy about it ("I have to first commit and then push? WHAT?? And checking out a remote branch takes multiple command line switches? Are you kidding??"). And these are kernel hackers, so I think you have a point here.
for people who are used to svn, and need/want to switch to git, look at "easygit", which makes things match up pretty much the same as what they are used to: http://www.gnome.org/~newren/eg/git-for-svn-users.html
People do love to complain though :)
greg k-h