Re: [Monotone-devel] monotone comparison, was Re: change_set.cc:526: invariant 'I(j != p2.end())' violated

[Christof Petig]

Nathaniel Smith schrieb:
> Would you mind saying a little about why you think that?  People keep
> asking me what makes Monotone better than, say, Darcs, or Arch, or
> whatever, and while I have some answers, I'm never quite sure what to
> say... and I have a pretty different perspective on what's going on
> than the average user, anyway.  I'd be curious to hear what other
> people perceive to be Monotone's relative strengths (and, for that
> matter, weaknesses :-)).

+ You are monotone's greatest strength ;-)

To be honest I would definitely consider switching to a different vcs if
there would be no new revision in the repository for a week or two.
Monotone still has some way to go (but is already well usable) and I
would never dare to shoulder the weight of improving it alone.

+ the sha1/sqlite design has great strengths and is more appealing to a
C/C++ developer than setting up a web server (pun intended)

Once the descriptor (already in .sqlite3) and BLOB changes (still to be
done) have made their way into mainline, the performance penalty of a
database is lost and 'monotone debug' clearly offers more than anyone
could ask for. Storing everything as compressed diffs is also extremely
efficient.

+ monotone-viz impresses everyone within seconds (especially if done on
the heavily branched net.venge.monotone branch) !!!

+ netsync is quite impressive (of course)

+ the command line help is helpful ;-)

+ monotone is minimal-invasive to your source tree ! (only toplevel MT/*)

- most CVS users are used to a merge into tree feature instead of firing
up an 3-way-merge program. Merge into tree is still on my (minor) wish list.

- there are no abbreviated options, yet, IIRC (monotone commit --message
is a lot to type compared to cvs ci -m)

- some operations (netsync) are quite slow [heads _really_ improved in
HEAD !!!]

- a monotone-commits mailing list would be great (though monotone-viz
can fill in this gap) [which mentions all newly imported revisions]

(perhaps more things I forgot to mention)

Diving into CVS sync again
   Christof

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