[DGD] The future of DGD

[Noah Gibbs]

  It's not awful to do merges in subversion.  I've done it.

  If you want to work offline from a subversion repository, look into git-svn, which makes a git checkout from an svn repository, and lets you update and submit, svn-ifying your git checkins as it goes.  It's pretty magical :-)  I'm told there's a similar tool for Mercurial.  Don't know about darcs.  But I've used git-svn, and it seems to work well.

--- On Wed, 2/3/10, Shentino <shentino at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Shentino <shentino at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [DGD] The future of DGD
> To: "All about Dworkin's Game Driver" <dgd at dworkin.nl>
> Date: Wednesday, February 3, 2010, 2:56 PM
>  I figured that this early stage
> would be the best opportunity to resolve
> anything that needed resolving.
> 
> Speaking in general, and not just about DGD-OSR...
> 
>  My commentary on merging is theoretical only.  I've
> never actually done
> much actual merging in any VCS but rumors are strong that
> they are a major
> league hassle in subversion.
> 
> One other thing I'd like to mention is that DVCSs like git,
> hg, and bzr tend
> to be useful in allowing you to do work offline and
> sandboxed.  Network
> traffic (and per-commit latency) gets pared down quite a
> bit, and if one
> should be so unfortunate as to have access problems, or
> outages, or what
> have you, work doesn't completely grind to a halt. 
> This can be quite useful
> if you're mobile or otherwise unable to count on solid
> internet access.
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