[Python-Dev] Looking for VCS usage scenarios (original) (raw)
Nick Coghlan ncoghlan at gmail.com
Thu Nov 6 12:35:32 CET 2008
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Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
I don't know about svn; I find it pretty painful to use for anything but sequential tasking (update ... hack ... commit ... repeat). But if you look at http://git.kernel.org/, you'll see a thicket of repos, each of which probably contains a few to a few hundred[1] branches (mostly merged to repo mainline or abandoned, of course).
If it isn't already there, suspending work on something to work on something else would make a very nice scenario to cover, as it is something even the core devs sometimes have to deal with.
I'd expect any DVCS to be able to handily beat what I currently do with SVN:
hack on first task
- svn diff > _patches/first_task.diff
- svn revert -R .
- svn update
hack on second task
- svn commit OR svn diff > _patches/second_task.diff (depending on whether or not I want it reviewed by someone else before committing it)
- svn revert -R .
- patch -p0 < _patches/first_task.diff
back to hacking on first task
Cheers, Nick.
-- Nick Coghlan | ncoghlan at gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia
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