Re: ANNOUNCE: Debian build scripts on a public Monotone server

[Brian May <bam@snoopy.apana.org.au>]

>>>>> "Samuel" == Samuel Tardieu <sam@rfc1149.net> writes:

    Samuel> When I started using GNU Arch and Darcs, I thought like
    Samuel> you that a separate repository was best for backups

Out of curiosity: How does Darcs compare with other systems?

    Samuel> purpose. As the time went, I started to like the
    Samuel> "repository = branch = working copy" model, as it makes it
    Samuel> easy for me to clone a repository on any machine I'm
    Samuel> working on without having to create a db, get the keys and
    Samuel> so on.

Earlier I use to find exact details like this important, but not so
much any more.

Having said this, I find it annoying if I get lots of unwanted results
if I try to do something like:

find . -type f | xargs grep abc

or

grep -r abc .

I believe this is a problem with subversion, bazaar (possibly OK if
you use revision libraries), bazaar-ng, as they keep copies of old
files available under a subdirectory for caching.

Yes, some programs will generate a list of files, but this can cause
other problems, e.g. slowness, filenames with spaces, filtering out
directories, etc.

Monotone looks a lot better...
-- 
Brian May <bam@snoopy.apana.org.au>