[oe] Git versus Hg

[Cliff Brake]

On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 10:28 AM, Koen Kooi
<koen at dominion.kabel.utwente.nl> wrote:
>  Cliff Brake schreef:
>
>
>  | Mercurial looks very interesting and nice in many aspects, but I have
>  | not used it yet.  It seems to me one of the fundamental differences is
>  | the concept of cheap/easy local branches.  Mercurial is working on
>  | something like that
>  | (http://www.selenic.com/mercurial/wiki/index.cgi/LocalBranches), but
>  | it is obviously not central to its philosophy like git .  The idea of
>  | creating many local branches a normal port of your development
>  | workflow seems unique to git.  As the gitmagic link below states, it
>  | makes it very easy to switch context to fix a bug, and then resume
>  | work on another feature.  This is a lot more than just "being good at
>  | generating patches"; it is a change in the way we work.
>
>  I can see how that's a good thing for what I call "traditional
>  application development" where a bunch of source files get compiled into
>  a single application (kernel, u-boot, xserver etc) where working on
>  multiple things at once doesn't work, since it makes building and
>  testing a nightmare. Easy branching solves that.
>
>  But OE isn't like that, it's a collection of build descriptions, which
>  makes it possible to be working on a 1000 different recipes at the same
>  time. This also is one of the reasons why mtn is so slow for us: lots of
>  files with a shortlived life spam and ±30 commits per day.

Good point.  BTW, I do appreciate your perspective and contribution to
OE.  At times like this, this appreciation may not be very obvious,
but you have done a great deal to keep the project moving and the
infrastructure running.  Many thanks!

Cliff

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