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Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: OpenEmbedded looking to jump ship
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Justin Patrin |
Subject: |
Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: OpenEmbedded looking to jump ship |
Date: |
Thu, 1 May 2008 15:20:08 -0700 |
On Thu, May 1, 2008 at 2:59 PM, Bruce Stephens
<address@hidden> wrote:
> "Justin Patrin" <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > It seems that some of the folks at OpenEmbedded are now grumbling
> > about use of monotone again and that some of our key developers are
> > looking to switch to something else (hg or git)[1]. The main point
> > of contention seems to revolve around, as we've seem lately on this
> > list, getting rid of revisions. In this particular case a revision
> > had been distributed that made unwanted changes. It was a head
> > revision and was suspended by a developer but other developers who
> > had versions of monotone prior to the suspend functionality blindly
> > merged it with their code, causing a chain of suspensions/removals
> > that was eventually fixed with a reverse patch.
>
> So how, concretely, would this have played out better had OpenEmbedded
> been using either hg or git?
>
That I don't know, I just thought I'd let you know that there's a
chance for discussion. I think that people have more of a feeling of
control with the other systems. I honestly don't know enough about hg
or git to comment on how they might solve this problem.
--
Justin Patrin