[development] SCM tools

[Gordon Heydon]

Hi,

One other things that I feel is important which darcs and other
distributed scm tools do is that the author of the patch gets directly
credited, even if they do not have write access to the main repository.

So instead of Dries says patch x by y they will be credited directly.

Gordon.

On Fri, 2005-11-18 at 10:48 +1100, Gordon Heydon wrote:
> 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.
> 
> 
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