Alexander Klenin schrieb: > On Sat, Jul 17, 2010 at 20:12, Florian Klämpfl <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> For first results see the dodi/parser_rewrite branch. >>> Generally speaking, long-lived feature branches should be avoided in SVN, >>> since the merging is incredibly painful. >> Why? As long as the patches textually apply, it's no problem. > > Of course, this is the trivial case. > >> But as soon as the changesets not longer apply the used vcs makes no >> difference. > > Well, you should really try using modern VCS ;-)
Well, I did, till the lazarus mercurial mirror repository broke. Yesterday, I tried to clone Graeme's git repository because I needed quickly fpc trunk: cloning aborted with some error message always at the same point. svn co was 1-2 min slower but it worked. > I just wanted to say that, in SVN, there is indeed a problem as soon as > conflicts start to accumulate, so (in my experience) the optimal way > is to avoid them > as much as possible by avoiding feature branches with a lifetime of > more than a few days. I don't see how this can be solved by another vcs. _______________________________________________ fpc-devel maillist - [email protected] http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel
