Not a holy war - just some salient facts

[Masklinn]

On 12 avr. 2010, at 23:17, Mike Meyer <mwm at mired.org> wrote:

> On Sun, 11 Apr 2010 17:20:01 +0200
> Sune Foldager <cryo at cyanite.org> wrote:
>>>> Mercurial and bazaar will work just fine.
>>>
>>> Of course they will. Perforce just works better in this case.
>>>
>>> Given that you've thrown away mercurials primary advantage by
>>> requiring pushes to a central server,
>>
>> This is not Mercurial's primary advantage, or that can at least be
>> discussed. There are many advantages to Mercurial, central server or
>> not; see above.
>
> True, but the performance advantage of the local repo is pretty much
> the only one that doesn't boil down to "but we like it that way" - at
> least for modern VCS tools. I.e. - mercurial has a slew of extensions
> like mq, shelve, tasks, etc. Personally, I'd trade the lot of them for
> a good lightweight branch mechanism.
Git-style branches via bookmarks not good enough?

> Most people seem to hate the
> perforce three-phase merge; I personally feel like everything else is
> just tossing my code against a wall and hoping the right parts stick
Could you describe it for those of us who've never used perforce?