From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1GCcPM-0005LC-4M for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 14 Aug 2006 09:23:08 -0400 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GCcPL-0005Jq-2Z for grub-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 14 Aug 2006 09:23:07 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GCcPJ-0005HR-7F for grub-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 14 Aug 2006 09:23:06 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GCcPJ-0005HB-1R for grub-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 14 Aug 2006 09:23:05 -0400 Received: from [194.109.24.30] (helo=smtp-vbr10.xs4all.nl) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1GCcV7-0002DJ-Hc for grub-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 14 Aug 2006 09:29:05 -0400 Received: from localhost.localdomain (249-174.surfsnel.dsl.internl.net [145.99.174.249]) by smtp-vbr10.xs4all.nl (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k7EDN34n028886; Mon, 14 Aug 2006 15:23:03 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from mgerards@xs4all.nl) From: Marco Gerards To: Johan Rydberg References: <87lkpszn0s.wl%jeroen@vrijschrift.org> <1155487746.18244.2.camel@diesel> <87k65cze97.wl%jeroen@vrijschrift.org> <1155498700.18244.12.camel@diesel> <87irkwz9e3.wl%jeroen@vrijschrift.org> <1155510374.18244.17.camel@diesel> <87lkprzxji.fsf@xs4all.nl> <87ac67iq6l.fsf@night.trouble.net> Mail-Copies-To: mgerards@xs4all.nl Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2006 15:28:59 +0200 In-Reply-To: <87ac67iq6l.fsf@night.trouble.net> (Johan Rydberg's message of "Mon, 14 Aug 2006 12:09:54 +0200") Message-ID: <87hd0fzbs4.fsf@xs4all.nl> User-Agent: Gnus/5.110004 (No Gnus v0.4) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Virus-Scanned: by XS4ALL Virus Scanner Cc: The development of GRUB 2 Subject: Re: moving away from CVS X-BeenThere: grub-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: The development of GRUB 2 List-Id: The development of GRUB 2 List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2006 13:23:07 -0000 Johan Rydberg writes: > Marco Gerards writes: > >>> I agree; I think there are far better replacements for CVS. Personally I >>> would highly recommend mercurial, but I suppose everybody has their own >>> preferences. I noticed that Savannah, where the GRUB tree is currently >>> hosted, offers subversion support... >> >> I like subversion because it solves most problems, while I do not have >> to learn something new. > > Subversion still does not track merges, which I think was the original > reason to why this discussion started. > > Personally I would rather use bzr, but I know our maintainer does not > like it that much (because of the lack of commit hooks.) But I > wouldn't mind switching to subversion, keep in mind that it will not > be any better than CVS. It is better than CVS, but just not in this specific case. Anyways, I do not mind that much about using bzr. Almost anything is better than CVS. :-) -- Marco