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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] Choosing a distributed version control system
 for PHP (or not). Call for Participation.
From: lester@lsces.co.uk (Lester Caine)

Kiall Mac Innes wrote:
> The Drupal document referenced is not explaining "How to develop Drupal" but rather "How to develop a drupal based site using git".
Actually in my book that is one of the same thing once we move to more complex 
sites. Parts of my own sites ARE packages under development in parallel with the 
main code tree, and while developing one invariably bugs are fixed in the main 
tree which need to be pushed back. This is precisely why I needed DVCS here, and 
managing and updating sites via Hg is working well.

> Drupal does have several documents on how to contribute fixes/features
> to Drupal itself
Actually the whole documentation tree is looking pretty good
http://drupal.org/documentation/git

But it still does not convince me that I made the wrong choice switching to Hg, 
and I can still pick up anything I want from the Drupal repos anyway.

At the end of the day, it's the whole infrastructure that needs to be agreed on, 
and I suspect that the Drupal model could be simply cloned into php.net? 
Irritating for some of us, but it can be lived with. I just think that it's a 
bit like Windows - everybody uses it despite it's faults - and simply work 
around it's faults. For me the very poor cross platform integration and support 
in Eclipse was a show stopper several months ago, so my own base is now Hg.

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