Re: [dev] Is Mercurial (hg) suckless?

Maybe there's some kind of ballmer-peek in weed ;)

2010/6/10 pancake <pancake_AT_youterm.com>:
> What's wrong with the weed? :)
>
> My drugs made me write a version control system few years ago named 'pvc'
> you can have a look in hg.youterm.com as usual.
>
> The design is really simple and effective, but it stores full file with no
> patchsets. So it's a big big the repo..
>
> I wrote it in perl and the code is pretty smart. It works as a cgi,
> standalone http server and cmdline tool. Sync is done via rsync.
>
> If somebody plays with it let me know. The design can be easily implemented
> in C. But the storage needs a rethink.
>
> On Jun 10, 2010, at 7:26 PM, Anselm R Garbe <garbeam_AT_gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On 10 June 2010 18:04, Moritz Wilhelmy <crap_AT_wzff.de> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Tom Lord did a fairly good job diagnosing some of the psychological
>>>> aspects that drove the svn insanity:
>>>>
>>>> http://harmful.cat-v.org/software/svn/diagnosing
>>>
>>> By the way, is anyone here using tla? I used to, but being involved in
>>> some
>>> projects using git and hg (and svn for university, blergh, they always
>>> use
>>> deprecated technology for the sake of being deprecated) and never found
>>> anyone
>>> using arch in real development situations, which made me pretty much
>>> switch to
>>> git/hg since that's what many people already know and arch is rather hard
>>> to
>>> use compared to them.
>>
>> tla? You must be joking, latest release dates 2006, it's code is
>> 150kSLOC (nearly 8 times Mercurial) -- most likely caused by the GNU
>> factor (==smoking too much weed) and the interface is completely
>> retarded (and always has been).
>>
>> -Anselm
>>
>
>
Received on Fri Jun 11 2010 - 07:35:05 UTC