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Emulator Issues #2788

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Mercurial would be better for Dolphin development

Added by ALIENDUDE5300 almost 14 years ago.

Status:
Won't fix
Priority:
Normal
Assignee:
-
% Done:

0%

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N/A
Issue type:
Bug
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Regression:
No
Relates to usability:
No
Relates to performance:
No
Easy:
No
Relates to maintainability:
No
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Description

I know that Dolphin has been using SVN for a while now, and it works great, but with the massive amount of rapid changes, it would be much better to switch the whole project to Mercurial (REALLY easy to do in Google Code -- Administer > Source > Version Control System > Mercurial). One major advantage of Mercurial is the fact that everyone has a local copy of the entire repository that is entirely their own, and they can commit (using "hg com") to it as much as they want without anyone actually getting the code until the changes are pushed using "hg push". That way, you still get the benefit of excellent version control (seeing differences between changes), but all your changes are pushed at once, and seamlessly integrated with the central repository, which seems to be a common complaint here, with certain developers committing multiple patches in rapid succession. Rather than having each individual revision listed, revisions are grouped as "changesets", so you can see intermittent revisions by the developer, but still have only a final, working change committed to the repository.

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