Re: gerris - Gerris Flow Solver
On Wed, 2008-12-17 at 21:53 -0400, David Bremner wrote:
> At Thu, 18 Dec 2008 12:30:08 +1100,
> Drew Parsons wrote:
> >
> > I've used git on the Xorg project, I greatly prefer it over svn.
> > Upstream on the other hand uses darcs.
> >
> > debian-science admin folk, should we manage gerris using darcs for the
> > sake of consistency with upstream? (darcs.debian.org does exist) Or
> > would it be better for us to set up a git repository for ourselves
> > instead?
>
> <some random guy>
> I'm not sure "debian-science admin folk" exist, but
> I would recommend against introducing another VCS into the group mix
> unless there are really compelling reasons (like you really need to
> track upstream VCS and importing darcs into is hard; no idea if either
> of those is true). Ultimately, I think we want to have some group
> wide status reports and other tools like pkg-perl does, and having one
> VCS on the back end makes that much easier.
> </some random guy>
>
The operation of darcs feels, superficially at least, quite similar to
git. I dare say we could even get away with keeping the _darcs
directory alongside the .git. Perhaps. Should be mostly safe with git
in any case.
Drew
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