New VCS Choice; SCM SIG

[Jason L Tibbitts III]

>>>>> "MM" == Mike McGrath <mmcgrath at fedoraproject.org> writes:

MM> Almost NO ONE bothered to actually aid Jesse in his evaluation of
MM> the various SCM's.  I didn't have a single email from anyone
MM> regarding the SVN repo I set up for eval.

Part of the problem, for me at least, is that I don't actually know
how to use any of the other SCM's, and certainly not in the context of
Fedora.  (OK, I guess I can use SVN well enough because it mostly acts
like CVS.  But the distributed stuff seems like deep weirdness to me
at this point because I've had no use for it.)

So how do I check out my packages from the eval SCM systems?  How do I
edit files (if it's more than just firing up an editor)?  How do I get
diffs between what's in the repo and what I just edited?  How do I tag
things for the buildsys?  Show me something cool I can do that I can't
in the old system.

Part of the problem is that for our purposes, CVS really seems to work
well enough.  Sure, it's not great, but really it's not the thing
people complain about.
 
 - J<