Moving to D

[Nick Sabalausky]

"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