[Scons-dev] Hg vs Git

[rupert THURNER]

On Sun, Nov 27, 2016 at 11:59 AM, Russel Winder <russel at winder.org.uk>
wrote:

> On Fri, 2016-11-25 at 18:42 -0500, Jonathon Reinhart wrote:
> > Dirk Bächle <tshortik at gmx.de> writes:
> >
> > > I *don't* want the history in my repos to be mutable...
> >
> > All of the major Git hosting providers have *protected branches*
> > which are
> > immutable.
>
> But isn't that a red herring? Git hosters are just a final mainline
> hoster imposing CVCS models. Git is all about DVCS ostensibly, though
> more and more people are reverting to CVCS with local caching as their
> working model because of GitHub, GitLab, BitBucket.
>
> The point here is that someone can mutate a branch locally and then
> force it to the mainline. Some people think this a good thing.
> Especially with the rise on GitHub of the habit of pull requests
> demanding commit squashing.
>

sorry for posting here, i usually just lurk on this list because i am
interested in build tools. i doubt that mercurial will die out - their
mailing list seems more busy than ever. history rewrite can be done with
mercurial nowadays with extensions, and will come even more, just note
facebooks "hg absorb" extension. a nice write up about future plans from
the mozilla dev list:
https://groups.google.com/d/topic/mozilla.dev.version-control/nh4fITFlEMk/discussion


rupert
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