DVCS (was Re: Moving to D)

[Michel Fortin]

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>


>> 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. :-)


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