Re: Alternative DVCS to git: hg?

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

On Thu, 18 Apr 2019 19:38:06 -0700
"Greg A. Woods" <woods%planix.com@localhost> wrote:

> The whole range of other more direct problems with SVN is of course
> the real issue with it:
> 
> - not really doing branches properly or usefully
What is your definition of a "useful" branch?

> - not doing or tracking merges properly
OK some problems exist

> - not really tracking changes per project (but rather per dir)
> - not being ACID in commit semantics
> - not being distributed and usable offline
No big deal if you don't need distributed VCS

> - not having secure guarantees of commit contents
Meaning? Can you give some examples?

> - being slow and a big resource pig (with a larger attack surface)
OK Git is somewhat more efficient, but I wouldn't describe Subversion
as extremely slow.