RE: [oasis-member-discuss] Request for mercurial or git distributed VCS

From
Farrukh Najmi <>
Date
2010-04-09T17:46:00+00:00
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Thread
RE: [oasis-member-discuss] Request for mercurial or git distributed VCS
Hi David,

There are *more* clients on *more* platforms for mercurial that are
*better* than *any* clients on *any* platform for svn:

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercurial#Related_software

As for tortoisesvn you should check out:

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TortoiseHg

There is really no good argument I have seen on why one should stick
with svn. Even inertia does not count since mercurial's
ConvertExtension can convert from most legacy VCS including svn
seamlessly while preserving *all* history of *all* branches.

  http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/ConvertExtension

Try converting to mercurial. IMHO, you will be very glad you did.

On 04/09/2010 01:15 PM, David RR Webber (XML) wrote:

  
Farrukh,

  
 

  
I must confess svn is my go-to solution - and I cannot live
without tortoisesvn client for Windows - using it daily.

  
 

  
Is there a similar solution for Mercurial or git VCS?  If
there's something better - I'm definitely interested in looking into
it!  I'm familiar with some svn limitations.

  
 

  
You are indeed correct that it had escaped my attention that
OASIS now has svn - and most definitely this is something now as a
priority to facilitate specification work - so I will look into this
soonest.

  
 

  
Thanks, DW