Oh well. We lost.

[David Dyer-Bennet]

On Wed, June 16, 2010 13:43, Tony Zakula wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 1:26 PM, David Dyer-Bennet <dd-b at dd-b.net> wrote:
>> Looks like the development team at work has decided to go with a
>> subversion setup for our new source control environment.  That won't be
>> too bad an outcome, but I was working to sell them Mercurial, and
>> apparently didn't do it well enough.
[snip]
> I use both as a consultant depending on what the client has.  I see
> strengths in all the source systems.  I think the best solution really
> depends on the project or environment.  However, one of the main
> selling points for me on a new project was the cgi to serve multiple
> repos without having to involve web dav.  SSH on Windows causes lots
> of pain, and although I do not use Windows, other people do.

Hmmm; I don't recall any difficulties setting up the Subversion server
under apache (two years ago here), and it's certainly been trouble-free
ever since.  Is the objection to web_dav something other than difficulties
setting things up?

It's certainly true that the Mercurial multi-repository server was trivial
to set up, did that just the other week.  However, it takes more detailed
administrative attention to add new repositories, including hand-editing a
config file.

I didn't consider using ssh-based repository access primarily because I
wanted to use the corporate ldap server (well, Windows AD)  for
authentication.  But I use Putty ssh from Windows a lot and don't notice
any issues, including using it with rsync for gigabytes of file transfer
on occasion.

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