dist-hg proof-of-concept ready for use

[Enrico Scholz]

overholt at redhat.com (Andrew Overholt) writes:

>> Many upstream projects are transitioning to either git, or hg because
>> of the distributedness of it, something you can't get from CVS or
>> SVN.
>
> I don't personally see the need for the distributedness when it comes to
> Fedora packaging stuff.  But perhaps I'm missing something.

It's much easier for local adaptations ((re)enabling patented stuff,
adding local patches). E.g. a local branch can be updated with 'git pull
. FE6' instead of applying patches manually.


Enrico