<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Mar 6, 2008 at 4:46 PM, Jeffrey Cunningham <<a href="mailto:jeffrey.k.cunningham@boeing.com">jeffrey.k.cunningham@boeing.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
Theres a lengthy discussion going on right now over in the Slime<br>
developers list about possibly switching from CVS to Hg. Thought the<br>
discussion might interest you.<br>
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<a href="http://common-lisp.net/pipermail/slime-devel/2008-March/007140.html" target="_blank">http://common-lisp.net/pipermail/slime-devel/2008-March/007140.html</a><br>
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--Jeff<br>
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</blockquote></div><br><div>One of the Emails in the discussion said:</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div>"I found Git to be somewhat complex as others said. Mercurial was fast and nice *until* I<div>
had to do non-trivial things like cloning a large repository or sending several isolated deltas from the past via email."</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>Does anybody have any experience with this? I ask because I have a large ClearCase installation that I am looking to move to Mercurial. But I want to make sure of two things:</div>
<div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>1) It can clone the repository relatively quickly to our development team in India (i.e. half a world away)</div><div>2) Support named branches well. This due to our current process relying on branches for doing post release patches.</div>
<div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>I understand I will be losing a feature of ClearCase that we rely on now. That is attributes but I think I can get way with putting the Bug number in the comments for the commits.</div>
<div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>BTW, 99% of the developers will be running on Windows.<br><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Courier; font-size: 16px; white-space: pre;"><br class="webkit-block-placeholder">
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