On Sat, Feb 11, 2012 at 9:21 PM, Rene Rivera <grafikrobot@gmail.com> wrote:
But Trac is globally available across all platforms without having to install anything. As is a wide variety of patch application tools.
What's your point? Assuming the DVCS tools are installed, they'd not require any additional installation either.
Someone else wants to check out this patch 6. Download patch from Trac (slow, requires browser, no tool support) 7. Apply patch
DVCS would allow local commits (with commit messages), handy for larger patches DVCS would support publishing and retrieving these patches
What happens when the repo you "publish" the patch from goes away before anyone has a chance t get it?
You mean what happens if you delete your patch/repo? Well, surprise, it's gone. :p
I.e. how is it different from uploading to a central server like Trac?
Didn't I outline the differences above?
To me, these are clear and useful advantages.
But if that's the only advantage..
It's not, it was just an example of an advantage.
Does it seem worth it to incur the very high cost of switching a central tool? And, yes, I've asked the same question (in different words) in just about all the previous svn vs. <insert-you-tool-here> threads.
-- Olaf