Moving to D

[Jacob Carlborg]

On 2011-01-06 23:26, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
> "Daniel Gibson"<metalcaedes at gmail.com>  wrote in message
> news:ig57ar$1gn9$1 at digitalmars.com...
>> Am 06.01.2011 20:46, schrieb Walter Bright:
>>> 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
>>>
>>> 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.
>>
>>
>> It's not SVN but trac doing this.
>> And trac's mercurial plugin seems to support that as well:
>> http://trac.edgewall.org/wiki/TracMercurial#MercurialChangesets
>>
>> Bitbucket also supports that kind of view, see for example:
>> https://bitbucket.org/goshawk/gdc/changeset/44b6978e5f6c
>>
>> The GitPlugin should support that as well, if I interpret the feature list
>> correctly: http://trac-hacks.org/wiki/GitPlugin
>>
>> Dsource seems to support both git and mercurial, but I don't know which
>> projects use them, else I'd them as examples to see how those trac plugins
>> work in real life.
>>
>
> DDMD uses Mercurial on DSource: http://www.dsource.org/projects/ddmd

I've been using Mercurial for all my projects on dsource and some other 
projects not on dsource. All DWT projects uses Mercurial as well.


-- 
/Jacob Carlborg