DVCS (was Re: Moving to D)

[Walter Bright]

Michel Fortin wrote:
> On 2011-01-06 15:01:18 -0500, Jesse Phillips 
> <jessekphillips+D at gmail.com> said:
> 
>> Walter Bright Wrote:
>>
>>> A couple months back, I did propose moving to git on the dmd 
>>> internals mailing
>>> list, and nobody was interested.
> 
> I probably wasn't on the list at the time. I'm certainly interested, 
> it'd certainly make it easier for me, as I'm using git locally to access 
> that repo.
> 
>>> 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 
>>
> 
> That's
>>
> only if you're hosted on github. If you install on your own server, git 
> comes with a web interface that looks like this (pointing to a specific 
> diff):
> <http://repo.or.cz/w/LinuxKernelDevelopmentProcess.git/commitdiff/d7214dcb5be988a5c7d407f907c7e7e789872d24> 

Eh, that's inferior. The svn will will highlight what part of a line is 
different, rather than just the whole line.


> Looks like meld itself used git as it's repository. I'd be surprised if 
> it doesn't work with git. :-)

I use git for other projects, and meld doesn't work with it.