[Zope-dev] Subversion externals versus mirroring

[Sebastien Douche]

On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 16:58, Martijn Faassen <faassen at startifact.com> wrote:
Hi Martjin

> Hey,
>
> Christian Theune wrote:
> [snip]
>> Same here. We also ended up in many deadlock situations having to
>> sacrifice chickens for SVN to resume operations. That's why we started
>> investigating alternatives which are better at branching and merging.

Here, we use Hg since 1 year and I'm really happy about that. I don't
want use svn anymore.

> The move of the Python core developers to mercurial is also interesting.

Caution with the actual workflow, 2 differences between SVN and Hg :
- you cannot check out partial repository
- external does not exist


Cheers


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