[svlug] Preventing a Revision Control Flamewar

[Chris Miller]

On Oct 16, 2008, at 9:23 PM, Brian J. Tarricone wrote:

> On Thu, 16 Oct 2008 21:17:26 -0700 Chris Miller wrote:
>
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_revision_control_software
>>
>> There was tension.
>
> I didn't detect any.

Hmm, my early warning flamedar had a false positive then.

>> Pick the one that suits your need best.
>
> ... which is exactly what we're trying to help with.  Bill has a
> specific use-case that isn't the main use of a VCS (which I assume to
> be managing source code), and asked for opinions.  No need to
> preemptively cry 'flamewar'.

Hmm, I seen flamewars about revision control before (elsewhere).  I  
was just trying to keep things calm.  It's also a good resource to  
take a look at - there are a ton of different distributed revision  
control systems that all have different strengths and weaknesses.  I  
can't hurt to browse. :-)

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