On 20/03/2012 14:54, Hartmut Kaiser wrote:
If ability to do distributed development and scalability are not convincing arguments for you, I don't know what will.
Nobody has shown to me that SVN is not capable of doing this - or Mercurial or ...put your favorite VCS name here...
I think points of distributed development (fast or offline work, freedom to experiment) have been already expressed in this thread. As for performance, hope you will trust http://git-scm.com/about (since I can't be bothered to find benchmarks for you).
Sure. The question is whether you need to switch in the first place.
I believe we do, and base this on trust I place on Dave's judgment on this. He knows the pains of maintaining existing boostcode base, just as many of us know pains of maintaining any large codebase in a central source control repository.
Anyway I'm not going to try to convince anybody. There are people doing the work to ensure future scalability of boost version control, I'm grateful for that and not going to stifle the effort. There will be always people complaining about necessity to unlearn old habits and learn new tools, but I think in this case it's just this: necessity. I believe boost code base simply won't scale without better version control.
Your implicit assumptions related to my 'unwillingness' to learn new things are wrong and I don't know where you got those from.
Apologies if this was implied. I literally meant "people", not you. B.