Richard Quadling wrote:
Having current SVN-only contributors learn it might going to be quite a
challenge.
That's me. And I am VERY used to TortoiseSVN - a visual tool
integrated into Windows Explorer (not IE, but the filesystem exploring
tool for Windows).
I really don't want to have to work at the command line. Sure I can,
but the tool needs to be a LOT easier than that.
I use CVS and SVN directly from Eclipse and I know exactly where you are coming
from. Currently this all runs transparently on all platforms and many of the
'reasons' given for wanting to change are already supported by additional tools
_in_ Eclipse. Up until recently DVCS systems did not have such will integrated
support, and this was the cause of most of my own problems. Having machines
running both Windows and Linux in parallel for testing purposes I certainly
don't want to be having to think which platform I am on and changing the help
manual!
TortoiseHg provides an independent integrated GUI which I currently use in
parallel with Eclipse to support Hg and git via hggit, but it lacks some of the
nice features of the SVN integration. MercurialEclipse has made a lot of
progress in the last few months and is starting to mimic the SVN tools, but
still has a few rough edges. Certainly it's developers are targeted at making
that better.
The Git GUI support is considerably more disjointed. Nothing is available that
works transparently cross platform! The EGit plugin for Eclipse still does not
support submodules and is rather basic in it's other functions, but now that I
have my Eclipse/TortoiseHg setup working something like stably, I am actually
_almost_ back to the same functionality that I've had on CVS and SVN repo's for
many years, and on the whole can just access github and gitorious via that.
The jump to git by many projects had nothing to do with improving functionality
and everything to do with jumping on 'this is the new sourceforge' bandwagon.
The majority of the world uses Windows - it does not mean it's the right answer
to the problem ;)
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