[Scummvm-devel] Switching from SVN to git, mercurial or bazaar

Paul Gilbert paulfgilbert at gmail.com
Tue Jun 9 04:36:26 CEST 2009


2009/6/9 Max Horn <max at quendi.de>

This is still an excellent question, of course. Actually, being able
> to work offline is a *huge* advantage in my eyes. Well, I'll try to
> list some advantages I see:
>

Thanks for the excellent summary about the advantages. I'd initially been
curious about how a change could be advantageous to me personally, and I can
see the ability to work with several branches easily would certainly be
nice. To take a recent example, I've had various code fragments lying around
for the Cruise engine as I've attempted to get sound handling to work, as
well as experimenting with trying to get savegames to load directly from the
launcher. It was a bit of pain having to zip up the changed files, and then
get a fresh copy of the source when I wanted to fix more immediate 'fixable'
errors without committing any of my experimental code. Being able to quickly
create different branches to work with different functionality would
certainly simplify matters.

I'm still in favour of a Windows shell integrated system, but I'd be willing
to use any system which has Windows command line binaries available. The
benefits sound intruiging enough that I'd be willing to put up with it. :)

Paul.
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