[ruby-core:21156] Re: Happy new year and... moving Ruby development to Git?

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On Jan 5, 2009, at 4:12 PM, Paul Brannan wrote:

> On Sat, Jan 03, 2009 at 12:48:09PM +0900, Michael Klishin wrote:
>> Darcs has idea of "every branch is a separate directory" (or used to
>> have it). I can't say it is a problem but you will end up having 3-5
>> copies of the pretty much the same code, and if you repository is 600
>> megs, not all movies you try to  download from iTunes may fit into
>> your HD.
>
> The bigger problem with keeping separate copies of each branch is that
> it forces the user to do a full recompile when a new branch is made =20=

> (*).
> This discourages short-lived development branches.
>
> Paul
>
>
> (*) at least, this is true when using make -- a build system that uses
> md5sums makes this less of an issue

Darcs still has no concept of branches. I quite like that. It gives a =20=

better overview on your file system. Every "branch" is still laid out =20=

like you would have it in SVN or something like that.

I would mark that problem as a problem of you build-system or you =20
workflow.

If I want to branch, I usually don't create a new repos as my branch =20
and start working there, instead I put the momentary state away in =20
another repos and continue working on my active repos. Then, I push =20
patches back to the "old repository" or pull patches from somewhere =20
else. This ensures that all "temporary data" is still in my active =20
"working repository". Sure, it only goes so far until I merge the =20
branches changes back into the "old repository", but thats when I =20
prefer to do a full check (and eventually rebuild) anyways.

My biggest problem with Darcs is that I have yet to run into the =20
dreaded merge problem. It is said not to be rather tame in > 2.0, but =20=

I have yet to experience it. So I can't make an assessment on that.
The Darcs command line interface is one of the best I ever =20
experienced. At least when it comes to my workflow, you mileage may =20
(and will!) vary.

Regards,
Florian
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