Is there and "rdist" for Mac?

[j. van den hoff]

On Fri, 16 Mar 2018 23:49:57 +0100, Joshua Root <jmr at macports.org> wrote:

> Dave Horsfall wrote:
>> On Fri, 16 Mar 2018, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
>>
>>>> What should I be using now?
>>>
>>> Possibly git.
>>
>> And...
>>
>>
>> On Fri, 16 Mar 2018, Chris Jones wrote:
>>
>>> Sounds to me like you are describing a git hosted software project,
>>> which you then clone and build where ever you need it. Each clone is  
>>> its
>>> own repostory, which you can commit to and push back to / pull from the
>>> central repo (which will be, for instance, the github version).
>>
>> OK, looks like I get to be a git[*] :-)  I've heard of it, but needed a
>> project to see what it can do; looks like I now have one...
>>
>> Thanks.
>
> I'll just note that git is not the only distributed version control
> system, and others like mercurial and bazaar are often considered to
> have better user experience. GitHub is popular, and there is value in
> that, but we'd be doing you a disservice if you came away with the
> impression that git is the only viable choice, especially for a personal
> project.

+1, really fitting assessment. and I'd add `fossil' to your short-list of  
possible alternatives ;)

>
> I'm sure you can find various posts on the web listing the drawbacks of
> each DVCS as learned from time using them. :)
>
> - Josh


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