Re: [RFC] Choosing a distributed version control system for PHP (or not). Call for Participation.

On Sun, 2011-08-07 at 16:50 -0400, David Soria Parra wrote: > I was asked to put together a RFC, and so here we are. I've created > an initial draft. It is mostly based on the very good Python PEP-0374. > It compares Git and Mercurial. > > https://wiki.php.net/rfc/dvcs Two comments: * It is said that the preferred way to get a patch from one branch to another is by doing a merge operation in the VCS. Depending on the timing we will most likely end up with two (trunk + 5.4) or, more likely, three (+ 5.3) old branches which are active. Will it be possible to merge between them using the VCS's merge facilities or will we end up cherry-picking there? If this is possible and we continuously merge these branches what are the strategies for preventing specific changes from being merged with the suggested systems (git and hg)? * There is a section "Moving extension from/to core to/from pecl" which seems to describe the "to core from pecl" route, not the other way round. johannes