On Fri, Feb 03, 2006 at 04:59:45PM +0100, Klaus Schmidinger wrote: > Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote: > >Dear V4L/DVB guys, > > > >We are proud to announce that we are doing some important steps to > >improve v4l/dvb development. Currently, the projects use a very old SCM > >(Source Configuration Management), based on RCS files (CVS). > > > >Although it was good in the past, now newer concepts were introduced to > >SCM that allows better models of development. It brings several > >advantages over CVS like: > > > > 1) Capable of being decentralized. Each developer may have its own > >local copy, with local commits; > > 2) Atomic commits. on rcs based systems, you have a separate control > >for each file, not for the patchset. On newer SCMs, the patchset is > >stored as an unique unit; > > 3) Better handling for conflict resolution; > > 4) Commit undo > > > >And others. For a better description of Mercurial, you should look at > >http://www.selenic.com/mercurial/. They have also an IRC channel on > >freenode (#mercurial). > > I've never heard of Mercurial. CVS worked fine for me, and I'm not > going to use Mercurial. > > So, this pretty much cuts me off of the driver CVS then, doesn't it? >... What exactly is the problem with using Mercurial? It's GPL'ed and not that hard to use. > Klaus cu Adrian -- "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days. "Only a promise," Lao Er said. Pearl S. Buck - Dragon Seed
