Any former SVK users on this list?

Bill Barry after.fallout at gmail.com
Thu Jun 26 13:06:41 CDT 2008


As a windows user of Hg, I like the fact that the context menu is 
available (and the graph when you are at the root and you view the 
changelog is indispensable, even if only to show the pretty picture to 
the boss), but I don't feel like I need it (as I did with svn and cvs). 
I would like to see the windows GUI experience get better (for instance, 
what is with the quit buttons? and why does qct crash when I commit a 
lot of files at the same time), but when the command line is so easy it 
doesn't really make a difference (though it does need a lot of polish 
before I'd see it as usable to a non-developer, perhaps a clone of olive 
[a gui for bzr] would be a good thing).

Marko Kaening wrote:
> Hi Ralf,
>
> On Thu, 26 Jun 2008, Ralf Schmitt wrote:
>   
>> I've used svk some time ago. It only makes sense when you're forced to
>> work with subversion IMHO.
>> Do not use it when you have the choice. Building svk was also always a PITA.
>>     
>
> well, for future projects I'd have the choice, actually. It would have 
> been just handy to have the direct access to all my old SVN repos without 
> the need to convert them into mercurial format.
>
> Another point is the still significantly better Windows client TortoiseSVN 
> in comparison to TortoiseHg. The latter could - due to its portability - 
> also be used on Linux, but is unfortunately not (yet) as powerful. But 
> perhaps one can hope for more development on it in the future.
>
> Just noticed that mercurial's mailing list is almost as much frequented as 
> subversion's... That tells something as well, I guess!
>
> Regards,
> Marko
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