Source control for all dmd source (Git propaganda =)

[Jarrett Billingsley]

On Tue, Jun 2, 2009 at 4:02 PM, Bill Baxter <wbaxter at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2009/6/2 "Jérôme M. Berger" <jeberger at free.fr>:
>> Leandro Lucarella wrote:
>>        I've started. I'll give you a full report tomorrow when I have tested
>> it more completely, but I have to tell you that it doesn't look good for
>> Git. Now, I have to ask: have *you* tried Mercurial or Bazaar? And what, in
>> your opinion, is the main advantage of Git over the other two?
>
> My faves:
>
> * Ability to do commits on particular source line diffs so you don't
> have to do gymnastics to prevent that unrelated one-line fix you made
> from going into your commit that fixes bug 1234.
>
> * Staging area (I think that's what the Git boys call it). Again makes
> it easier to get just the things you want into a commit, and nothing
> you don't.

I like the idea of the staging area.  TortoiseSVN has something
similar and I use it quite a bit - when you choose to commit a
directory, you can choose exactly which files you want to commit.  Not
quite line-by-line granularity, but still rather nice.