[Pkg-octave-devel] Using a distributed VCS for the DOG

[Rafael Laboissiere]

* Thomas Weber <thomas.weber.mail at gmail.com> [2008-03-05 07:18]:

> We are currently using Subversion and I'd like to switch to a
> distributed VCS as well. I'm sitting in a train right now and I'm
> feeling the pain of not being able to "$VCS log" and "$VCS diff
> -rsomething_older".[1]
> 
> I'm not really set on any system: Mercurial might be easier to learn, as
> we will need it anyway for Octave. Git seems to get more and more
> traction, and there's also darcs, bazaar, ...

I would restrict the choice to Mercurial and Git.  I do not wish to learn
soon a fifth VCS.

> Anyway, this is nothing we need to rush, and we can even target it
> post-lenny. So, if you have a free minute, think about it yourself.

Absolutely.  It would be pure craziness to switch before the lenny release.

> [1] This mail will be queued for sending via msmtp and is sent when I
> get online again. If you need something like this, I can wholeheartly
> recommend it - it works like a charm.

Last time you talked about offlineimap.  Did you change your mind or is it
possible to use both offlineimap and msmtp together?

-- 
Rafael