Pijul – A free and open source distributed version control system
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Re: Pijul – A free and open source distributed version control system
#2How does this compare to darcs?
Edit: they have some minor text on how it's better, but a more detailed description would be appreciated.
Re: Pijul – A free and open source distributed version control system
#3How does this compare to darcs? http://darcs.net/ Edit: they have some minor text on how it's better, but a more detailed description would be appreciated.
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Re: Pijul – A free and open source distributed version control system
#4How does this compare to darcs? http://darcs.net/ Edit: they have some minor text on how it's better, but a more detailed description would be appreciated.
Not sure why this was downvoted, it is a legitimate question.
https://pijul.org/faq.html#did-you-solve-the-exponential-mer... answers it, at least partially. There may be a more comprehensive comparison, though.
Re: Pijul – A free and open source distributed version control system
#5How does this compare to darcs? http://darcs.net/ Edit: they have some minor text on how it's better, but a more detailed description would be appreciated.
It is heavily inspired by Darcs, and is based on an alternative "theory of patches" that reportedly has much better worst-case performance characteristics.
It is written in Rust, instead of Haskell, also contributing to better/more predictable performance.
The Darcs folks are very aware and supportive of it, and last I heard, Darcs might add support for the Pijul patch format.
This is an extremely exciting project.
(speaking as a long time Darcs fan and passive onlooker who saw the Pijul presentation at rustconf)
Re: Pijul – A free and open source distributed version control system
#6Looks like this is inspired by Darcs but was originally an attempt to improve it for those curious about it as I was. It is written in Rust which gives it all of the benefits (and weaknesses(?)) of Rust.
Re: Pijul – A free and open source distributed version control system
#7How does this compare to darcs? http://darcs.net/ Edit: they have some minor text on how it's better, but a more detailed description would be appreciated.
It's supposedly faster, or, has a tolerable performance (I've nevere used Pijul, and never used darcs to the extent that it became slow).
Re: Pijul – A free and open source distributed version control system
#8How does this compare to darcs? http://darcs.net/ Edit: they have some minor text on how it's better, but a more detailed description would be appreciated.
It is heavily inspired by Darcs, and is based on an alternative "theory of patches" that reportedly has much better worst-case performance characteristics. It is written in Rust, instead of Haskell, also contributing to better/more predictable performance. The Darcs folks are very aware and supportive of it, and last I heard, Darcs might add support for the Pijul patch format. This is an extremely exciting project. (…
I find it very uplifting to see both team exchanging so nicely.
Feels like good research and progress.
Re: Pijul – A free and open source distributed version control system
#9How does this compare to darcs? http://darcs.net/ Edit: they have some minor text on how it's better, but a more detailed description would be appreciated.
Not sure why this was downvoted, it is a legitimate question. https://pijul.org/faq.html#did-you-solve-the-exponential-mer... answers it, at least partially. There may be a more comprehensive comparison, though.
I looked through the site, and saw some high-level comparisons, but there's not much meat to it.
Where Darcs has this:
https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Understanding_Darcs/Patch_theo...
Pijul has some text saying "we're better than Darcs in these areas".
Re: Pijul – A free and open source distributed version control system
#10Sadly, I'm afraid the AGPL license is going to make this untouchable to businesses… :-(
[Edit] Interestingly, they cover that. I suppose if you're just running Pijul rather than integrating with its code, it might be safe to use in a corporate environment. Still, it's likely to be offputting.