From felix at nfrac.org  Wed May 26 03:20:12 2010
From: felix at nfrac.org (Felix Andrews)
Date: Wed, 26 May 2010 11:20:12 +1000
Subject: [Rd] SVN vs DVCS
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On second thoughts it is really none of my business how the R sources
are managed.
But I would encourage package developers and/or r-forge maintainers to
consider these systems.
Regards
-Felix

On 26 May 2010 10:29, Felix Andrews <felix at nfrac.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Just wondering whether anyone had thought about moving the R sources
> to a "distributed" version control system such as Bazaar, Git or
> Mercurial. These new generation systems make it easier to work on
> feature branches, allow working offline, are very fast, etc.
>
> Some projects that have moved to Git are
> Linux Kernel
> Perl
> Ruby on Rails
> ...
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Git_(software)
>
> Some projects that have moved to Bazaar (bzr) are
> Ubuntu
> MySQL
> Inkscape
> ...
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bazaar_(software)
>
> Some projects that have moved to Mercurial (hg) are
> Mozilla
> Octave
> Python
> ...
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercurial_(software)
>
> Joel Spolky's take on it:
> http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2010/03/17.html
>
> Regards
> -Felix
>
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Fenner School of Environment and Society [Bldg 48a]
The Australian National University
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[Rd] SVN vs DVCS
Felix Andrews