Moving to D

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 1/6/11 9:18 AM, Don wrote:
> Walter Bright wrote:
>> Nick Sabalausky wrote:
>>> "Caligo" <iteronvexor at gmail.com> wrote in message
>>> news:mailman.451.1294306555.4748.digitalmars-d at puremagic.com...
>>>> On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 12:28 AM, Walter Bright
>>>> <newshound2 at digitalmars.com>wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> That's pretty much what I'm afraid of, losing my grip on how the whole
>>>>> thing works if there are multiple dmd committers.
>>>>>
>>>>> Perhaps using a modern SCM like Git might help? Everyone could have
>>>>> (and
>>>> should have) commit rights, and they would send pull requests. You
>>>> or one
>>>> of the managers would then review the changes and pull and merge
>>>> with the
>>>> main branch. It works great; just checkout out Rubinius on Github to
>>>> see
>>>> what I mean: https://github.com/evanphx/rubinius
>>>>
>>>
>>> I'm not sure I see how that's any different from everyone having
>>> "create and submit a patch" rights, and then having Walter or one of
>>> the managers review the changes and merge/patch with the main branch.
>>
>> I don't, either.
>
> There's no difference if you're only making one patch, but once you make
> more, there's a significant difference. I can generally manage to fix
> about five bugs at once, before they start to interfere with each other.
> After that, I have to wait for some of the bugs to be integrated into
> the trunk, or else start discarding changes from my working copy.
>
> Occasionally I also use my own DMD local repository, but it doesn't work
> very well (gets out of sync with the trunk too easily, because SVN isn't
> really set up for that development model).
>
> I think that we should probably move to Mercurial eventually. I think
> there's potential for two benefits:
> (1) quicker for you to merge changes in;
> (2) increased collaboration between patchers.
>
> But due to the pain in changing the developement model, I don't think
> it's a change we should make in the near term.

What are the advantages of Mercurial over git? (git does allow multiple 
branches.)

Andrei