OpenEuphoria

2. Re: SCM systems?

• Posted by ghaberek (admin) Aug 14, 2009
• 1195 views

I've only ever used SVN. Works great.

-Greg

4. Re: SCM systems?

• Posted by jeremy (admin) Aug 14, 2009
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I have not had problems with SVN either but I find that working with a distributed SCM is much easier, promotes branching when working on any long lasting change (more than a few hours) and allows me to commit more often, even when the resulting commit is no good. For instance, I may be working on removing DOS support and have done 1/3 of the standard library. I can safely commit because it's into my repo. Then I do another 1/3, and another 1/3. Finally, all the tests are passing and I push as one change back to the main repo.

Or, let's say I am working adding something new to the language. I can add it to the interpreter and my test.ex works, so I commit. I then run the unit tests and see that some fail, I fix the underlying problem and commit. I then move to the translator, commit. Run the demos, commit. Update the docs, commit. Push to the main repo.

It just makes more sense to me. I hope that we can move to a distributed SCM with OpenEuphoria. Oh, and these commits are instant since they are local. It's also easy to take a commit and push it to you or Matt to help me with a change I am stuck on or something. Oh... That brings up another point. I can commit to my local repo then sync on my OS X box with my local repo and make sure the changes still work on OS X, then again with Linux. Once they are working on the core OS's we support, I can push the resulting changes to the main repo.

Jeremy

6. Re: SCM systems?

• Posted by DerekParnell (admin) Aug 14, 2009
• 1110 views

Ok, but I'm doing that sort of thing now without a distributed SCM. But, whatever ...

You do not have to sell me on anything, BTW. If we move to something else and I have to work with a command line interface then my contribution rate will plummet.

8. Re: SCM systems?

• Posted by jeremy (admin) Aug 14, 2009
• 1100 views

I'm not selling, I'm just discussing. You're a core developer and have the right to help make the decision. Git, however, has a GUI that comes with it. For instance, I right click (in windows explorer) and say Git GUI. It shows the current files that have changed, I can select one, it shows the diff, it provides a place to enter a commit message, I select which files I want to commit (or all) and press commit. The same GUI works for all sorts of operations, the same as Tortoise for SVN.

BTW... How do I add, say, *.err to the SVN ignore property in Tortoise? I think I told you that I had been using it recently, but I'm stuck with that right now.

Jeremy

10. Re: SCM systems?

• Posted by jeremy (admin) Aug 14, 2009
• 1056 views

Hm, I don't want a global ignore... Maybe a real example would be good. I want to ignore, *_post.e(tag|tml) in the templates directory.

Jeremy

12. Re: SCM systems?

• Posted by gbonvehi Aug 15, 2009
• 1049 views

I've personally chosen Bazaar over others because I interact a lot with people that prefer GUI and use Windows, and Bazaar has been the only one that has a good support on all platforms and a very nice GUI backed by TortoiseBzr.