Re: Alternative DVCS to git: hg?

[Sad Clouds <cryintothebluesky%gmail.com@localhost>]

On Tue, Apr 16, 2019 at 8:26 PM Greg Troxel <gdt%lexort.com@localhost> wrote:
>
> Sad Clouds <cryintothebluesky%gmail.com@localhost> writes:
>
> > Does it actually need to be distributed? If no, then what's wrong with
> > Subversion? Personally, I can't stand Git.
>
> I think any open-source project needs a distributed VCS, so that people
> without commit bits can fully prepare changes.  With CVS, and it would
> be the same, people send patches, and they often lack commit messages,
> and sending them means going out of tool.  With git and similar, anyone
> can publish a repo, and/or can export a commit so that it can be merged
> as is.
>

Does it really save that much time and effort? I mean the code change
still needs to be reviewed and tested by someone with commit rights,
and the time to do that would probably dwarf the time to apply a patch
with commit message.