DVCS for MacPorts Project?

[Toby Peterson]

On May 31, 2009, at 1:57 AM, C. Florian Ebeling wrote:

> On Sun, May 31, 2009 at 9:13 AM, Ryan Schmidt  
> <ryandesign at macports.org> wrote:
>>
>> On May 30, 2009, at 07:50, Akira Kitada wrote:
>>
>>> It seems Git and Mercurial just think keyword substitutions are't so
>>> useful, and even it hurts, maybe.
>>> So if there were a report on that, I wonder it will be fixed.
>>
>> Wonderful. So they knowingly distribute a client that does not  
>> conform to
>> the client/server agreement.
>>
>> If we care enough to prevent these malformed commits from getting  
>> into our
>> repository, we can write a pre-commit hook to prevent them.
>>
>>> By the way, I also do not find $id$ is so useful. I just use it
>>> because MacPorts Guide recommends it.
>>
>> Thank you for abiding by the guideline.
>
> Ryan, I find your communication style quite unfriendly here. I don't
> see why Akira's considerately presented preference, which is different
> from the one mp makes, deserves such a sarcastic reply.
>
> If you drive away a single contributer by applying this style, you
> have hurt the project more than anyone could by not adhering to some
> minor guideline.

I haven't seen any issues from people using other (non-svn) clients to  
commit - afaik the $Id$ tag expansion is a server-side operation...

We aren't switching to any other system, and people can use any client  
they wish. I don't think there's an issue here.

- Toby