Re: [Chicken-users] darcs repository?

[john]

Thanks Alex for the informative feedback. I am going to give it a try.
It is used also on a project I am interested in (OpenEmbedded).

Cheers,

John.

On 15/08/07, Alex Queiroz <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hallo,
>
> On 8/15/07, john <address@hidden> wrote:
> > On the topic of VCS I recently took a look at monotone
> > (http://monotone.ca/). It was easy to install and follow the tutorial
> > and I am thinking of trying it out on my own Chicken project. I liked
> > the way it uses sqlite for the repository. I am curious to see if
> > anyone has had some experience with it and what they thought?
> >
>
>      Disclaimer: I have write access to monotone.ca.
>
>      I have been using monotone since I found out about it during the
> linux kernel bitkeeper fiasco.
>
> Pros:
>      - I never lost data (important!)
>      - Totally distributed, each branch can have multiple heads
>      - Every commit is signed by a RSA key
>      - I like the repository-as-single-file thing
>      - Customisation by Lua hooks is very cool
>
> Cons:
>      - Does not serve through HTTP, must use own protocol or via SSH tunnel
>      - Some operations are still slow (initial pull, annotate), but
> getting faster with each release
>
> Cheers,
> --
> -alex
> http://www.ventonegro.org/
>