DVCS (was Re: Moving to D)

[Jacob Carlborg]

On 2011-01-06 21:12, 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>
>
>
> Also
> when I want an overview with git I just type gitk on the command line to
> bring a window where I can browser the graph of forks, merges and
> commits and see the diff for each commit. Here's what gitk looks like:
> <http://michael-prokop.at/blog/img/gitk.png>

Have you heard of gitx? I suggest you take a look at it: 
http://gitx.frim.nl/index.html . It's a Mac OS X GUI for git.

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


-- 
/Jacob Carlborg