2008/7/2 Daryle Walker <darylew@hotmail.com>:
I wasn't directing this at you. I was responding to the general pattern. After all the OP did suggest switching VC systems. But my comment is not just about VC systems. It's about all the tools. For example the various discussions about switching the build system and phrasing it as if switching the build system will solve testing problems. When in reality the build system has almost nothing to do with the current testing problems we have.
James Sharpe said that, not the OP (which is me).
And I only suggested it in response to the argument that frequently changing branches makes it difficult to track changes between releases, whereas this is only really true with centralized VCS systems; I argued that a DVCS makes this point not valid anymore; in particular I had in mind the gitk tool for git which enables you to visualise the merge history of the release, thus making tracking changes very easy.