Re: distributed version control

[David Bateman]

Rafael Laboissiere wrote:
> * David Bateman <address@hidden> [2008-01-28 15:38]:
>
>   
>> One thing I love about SVN and I hope any future version control system
>> for Octave will have is a means of checking out and committing through
>> https. This allows a transparent pass through of any corporate firewall
>> and make the life of anyone developing code behind one much easier. The
>> conversation in this thread doesn't seem to address whether any of the
>> proposed tools has this capability or not.
>>     
>
> As regards git, commands like git-clone [1] and git-pull [2] accept a wide
> range of URL types (look for the sections "GIT URLS" in the man pages
> below).
>
> [1] http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-clone.html
> [2] http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-pull.html
>
> It would surprise me if hg had not the same capability.
>  
>   
Don't pull and clone make a copy of the repository? What about
committing back to the master repository over https? I really have no
idea of the capabilities of the versioning tools proposed, and as SVN
was off the cards I haven't entered into this discussion till now.

D.

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