Re: [Monotone-devel] [from svn list] Case study: Mono switches to Subversion

[Matthew A. Nicholson]

Richard Levitte - VMS Whacker wrote:
> In message <address@hidden> on Thu, 18 Nov 2004 12:17:43 -0600, "Matthew A. 
> Nicholson" <address@hidden> said:
>
> matt> Bruce Stephens wrote:
> matt> > <http://subversion.tigris.org/servlets/ReadMsg?list=dev&msgNo=83672>
> matt> 
> matt> How would monotone fare in such a situation?
>
> Considering the stubornness of some people in the GNOME project (as I
> understand it from the message you point at), monotone would probably
> not go at all, primarly because there's no 'blame'/'annotate' and
> secondly because there's absolutely no support for committing single
> files unless you want to make the effort to commit between every
> changed file, which I think would be really stupid, at the very least.

Most certianly.  I would not expect them to switch (plus I don't think monotone 
is ready yet).  Just wondering how we would fare.  Now seeing as there is not 
blame/annotate, can't this information be gathered from the certs?

> However, it may be that monotone's off-line features are cool enough
> for people to get their act together to change their habits.  It
> certainly did for me.

Yeah, I find monotone great for even managing a project on which I am the only 
developer.  I nolonger have to worry about breaking something and not being able 
to fix it. :)

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Matthew A. Nicholson
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