Not a holy war - just some salient facts

[Steve Borho]

On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 9:06 PM, Mark A. Flacy <mflacy at verizon.net> wrote:

>  On Thu, 2010-04-08 at 20:22 -0500, Steve Borho wrote:
>
>  Mercurial will handle these well.  Many users start out by versioning
> their "dotfiles" to get a feel for the tool.  To be honest, all of the
> modern DVCS can handle this quite easily, so you'll have to make a
> selection based on other criteria.  The reason I started using hg over
> bzr (back in 2005) was that it allowed me to push to my personal repos
> on a remote host over ssh.
>
>
> Do you consider pushing over sftp to be a different thing?  If not, bzr
> allows you to do that.  (Over non-standard ports too.)
>

There's miles of difference between mercurial's ssh protocol and sftp, when
you measure latency.  The performance of the two are not even close.

Non-standard ports are not a problem; ssh -p works just fine.

--
Steve Borho
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