Re: [boost] [git] Mercurial?

Subject: Re: [boost] [git] Mercurial?
From: Daniel James (dnljms_at_[hidden])
Date: 2012-03-27 04:20:34

On 27 March 2012 04:57, Joel de Guzman <joel_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>
> It's frustrating to have to go through all these hoops to do such
> a (IMO) trivial and necessary task. I'm now forming a conclusion
> that current DVCS systems (both Git and Hg) fail in this regard.
> Needless to say, this task is equally frustrating to do with SVN
> as well.

If it was a trivial and necessary task, then it'd be supported in at
least one of the new version control tools. It's certainly not
trivial, and most people don't seem to miss it. Anyway, as I said
before, git-svn is really bad for collaborative work.