Gordon, I love Darcs, unfortunately had no chance to test it in a larger developer environment yet. But in any case: darcs was designed *exactly* for developer communities and workflows like Drupal has. Not like svn that noly fixes the mayor annoyences of an ancient RCS. Darcs has no frontends, but who cares :) zwe dont even ship with an install frontend, so should we care about developer frontends? Thank you, Gordon for getting this going! Ber Op vrijdag 18 november 2005 00:48, schreef Gordon Heydon:
Hi,
With all this talk about different scm's. I have been using darcs (darcs.net) and I use it for a number of projects.
Basically darcs is a distributed similar to bzr or git. I find that it works well, and has a number of features that I like, such as patch picking (means you can select which patches you take) and when you are recording a change set you can pick what changes are going to be included into the patch.
Using tailor I have gone one step further and I have set up a darcs drupal repository which people can download from. To get the cvs version of drupal you can execute the following command.
darcs get --partial http://repos.heydon.com.au/drupal
this will get the latest version of the drupal repository.
I have set it up so this repository will be synced with the drupal cvs repository every 6 hours.
To update you local repository you just do the following in the drupal directory
darcs pull -a
and it will download all the new patches that have been applied.
When you have made changes to your copy of drupal you can then do a
darcs whatsnew
and it will show you all the changes, and to record these use the following
darcs record
and you can then choose which changes will be included in the patch.
I also have the web frontend going which can be gotten to at the following.
http://repos.heydon.com.au/darcsweb/darcsweb.cgi?r=drupal;a=summary
which is a little ugly at the moment as tailor doesn't really look that nice. There is also some problem ATM with the web frontend, but I think this is because of the version of python or something that dreamhost has done to python.
Let me know what you think. Gordon. Bèr -- [ Bèr Kessels | Drupal services www.webschuur.com ]