Re: Alternative DVCS to git: hg?

[Benny Siegert <bsiegert%gmail.com@localhost>]

Please do not turn this thread into a discussion about the merits of
various VCSes for use in NetBSD. These discussions should take place
on the tech-repository list. Thank you.

On Wed, Apr 17, 2019 at 12:26 PM Sad Clouds <cryintothebluesky%gmail.com@localhost> wrote:
>
> 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.
>


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Benny