Re: VCS

2009-10-24 Thread olafBuddenhagen
Hi, On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 09:16:04AM +0200, Arne Babenhauserheide wrote: > Am Dienstag, 22. September 2009 00:44:55 schrieb > olafbuddenha...@gmx.net: > > The only major advantage of Mercurial over Git seems to be that it's > > easier to grasp initially (at least for people coming from CVS/SVN)

Re: VCS (was: hurd-web/hurd/translator/unionmount.mdwn)

2009-09-23 Thread Sergiu Ivanov
Hello, On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 05:26:54PM +0200, Arne Babenhauserheide wrote: > Am Mittwoch, 23. September 2009 16:54:54 schrieb Sergiu Ivanov: > > > I have a course of German at the University now, so I'll soon become a > > true Hurd man :-) (since, apparently, a lot of Hurd people speak > > Germ

Re: VCS (was: hurd-web/hurd/translator/unionmount.mdwn)

2009-09-23 Thread Arne Babenhauserheide
Am Mittwoch, 23. September 2009 16:54:54 schrieb Sergiu Ivanov: > > It sort of automatically creates shorter aliases for you - saves > > keystrokes. > > Aha, so it does so automatically. I somehow thought you have to > define aliases by yourself. You can, but you don't have to. > > And when y

Re: VCS (was: hurd-web/hurd/translator/unionmount.mdwn)

2009-09-23 Thread Sergiu Ivanov
Hello, On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 04:01:36PM +0200, Arne Babenhauserheide wrote: > Am Mittwoch, 23. September 2009 14:45:41 schrieb Sergiu Ivanov: > > Well, yes, but wasn't CVS, for instance, created for distributed code > > collaboration, too? Or do I understand the word ``distributed'' > > wrong?

Re: VCS (was: hurd-web/hurd/translator/unionmount.mdwn)

2009-09-23 Thread Arne Babenhauserheide
Am Mittwoch, 23. September 2009 14:45:41 schrieb Sergiu Ivanov: > Well, yes, but wasn't CVS, for instance, created for distributed code > collaboration, too? Or do I understand the word ``distributed'' > wrong? The difference is that in CVS you have a reference server, so it's normally called "c

Re: VCS (was: hurd-web/hurd/translator/unionmount.mdwn)

2009-09-23 Thread Sergiu Ivanov
Hello, On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 02:09:32PM +0200, Arne Babenhauserheide wrote: > Am Mittwoch, 23. September 2009 13:23:43 schrieb Sergiu Ivanov: > > Hm, I thought there would be more differences than that. Although > > from your discussion with Arne last summer I could only suppose that > > git an

Re: VCS (was: hurd-web/hurd/translator/unionmount.mdwn)

2009-09-23 Thread Arne Babenhauserheide
Am Mittwoch, 23. September 2009 13:33:08 schrieb Sergiu Ivanov: > > Also you can very easily customize it with extensions... damn, we had > > that discussion already. It took several weeks of pages-long E-Mails :-) > > Oh, I really didn't mean to make both you and antrik repeat what you > have onc

Re: VCS (was: hurd-web/hurd/translator/unionmount.mdwn)

2009-09-23 Thread Arne Babenhauserheide
Am Mittwoch, 23. September 2009 13:23:43 schrieb Sergiu Ivanov: > Hm, I thought there would be more differences than that. Although > from your discussion with Arne last summer I could only suppose that > git and Mercurial are very similar in many approaches. They were written for the same usecas

Re: VCS (was: hurd-web/hurd/translator/unionmount.mdwn)

2009-09-23 Thread Sergiu Ivanov
Hello, On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 09:16:04AM +0200, Arne Babenhauserheide wrote: > Am Dienstag, 22. September 2009 00:44:55 schrieb olafbuddenha...@gmx.net: > > On Tue, Sep 08, 2009 at 10:08:23AM +0300, Sergiu Ivanov wrote: > > > Seeing how advertently you propagate Mercurial in every applicable > >

Re: VCS (was: hurd-web/hurd/translator/unionmount.mdwn)

2009-09-23 Thread Sergiu Ivanov
Hello, On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 12:44:55AM +0200, olafbuddenha...@gmx.net wrote: > On Tue, Sep 08, 2009 at 10:08:23AM +0300, Sergiu Ivanov wrote: > > > Seeing how advertently you propagate Mercurial in every applicable > > task, I think I'll have to have a look at it :-) It should be worth > > the

Re: VCS (was: hurd-web/hurd/translator/unionmount.mdwn)

2009-09-23 Thread Arne Babenhauserheide
Am Dienstag, 22. September 2009 00:44:55 schrieb olafbuddenha...@gmx.net: > On Tue, Sep 08, 2009 at 10:08:23AM +0300, Sergiu Ivanov wrote: > > Seeing how advertently you propagate Mercurial in every applicable > > task, I think I'll have to have a look at it :-) It should be worth > > the time ;-)