DVCS (was Re: Moving to D)

[Jesse Phillips]

Walter Bright Wrote:

> Russel Winder wrote:
> > Pity, because using one of Mercurial, Bazaar or Git instead of
> > Subversion is likely the best and fastest way of getting more quality
> > contributions to review.  Although only anecdotal in every case where a
> > team has switched to DVCS from CVCS -- except in the case of closed
> > projects, obviously -- it has opened things up to far more people to
> > provide contributions.  Subversion is probably now the single biggest
> > barrier to getting input on system evolution.
> 
> 
> A couple months back, I did propose moving to git on the dmd internals mailing 
> list, and nobody was interested.
> 
> One thing I like a lot about svn is this:
> 
> http://www.dsource.org/projects/dmd/changeset/291

You mean this: https://github.com/braddr/dmd/commit/f1fde96227394f926da5841db4f0f4c608b2e7b2

> 
> where the web view will highlight the revision's changes. Does git or mercurial 
> do that? The other thing I like a lot about gif is it sends out emails for each 
> checkin.
> 
> One thing I would dearly like is to be able to merge branches using meld.
> 
> http://meld.sourceforge.net/

Git does not have its own merge tool. You are free to use meld. Though there is gitmerge which can run meld as the merge tool.