Scribit Edi Weitz dies 18/01/2007 hora 10:01:
- I have everything on my laptop which I regularly also use to work
in coffee bars or trains where I don't have Internet access. Every source control system that will be publicly accessible won't be accessible to /me/ in these situations.
The same requirement led me to take a look at the various decentralized version control systems. If you ever work on two machines or more, it's definitely worth the try (but it's not a trivial effort, because you have to choose among many competing systems).
- [...] apart from that: Can I easily use foo-42 with NT Emacs from
Windows like I can use CVS now?
As far as the jungle of decentralized SCM is concerned, that requirement helps: it rules out most of them... For half a matter of technical merits and half a matter of taste, I finally settled on Mercurial. It has an Emacs extension (minor mode? I use Emacs for Lisp but I'm not that familiar with it) and I think it runs under NT.
By the way, I'll try to track the versions of some of Edi's packages, and if someone is interested, I could make a Mercurial repository publicly available. If Mercurial is not your favourite VCS, I suppose you could then use something like tailor to have your VCS populated from the Mercurial repo...
Distributedly, Pierre