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Monthly Archives: September 2005
Announcing a Windows installer for Mercurial
I am pleased to announce the availability of a standalone Windows version of Mercurial 0.7 (plus extra bits), packaged as a self-extracting installer. Benefits of this package: No prerequisites! You don’t need Python installed to use Mercurial any longer, because…
tumgreyspf considered harmful
A few months ago, I grew sufficiently tired of wading through the enormous quantities of spam I was receiving (about a thousand junk emails per day) that I decided to experiment with a technique called greylisting to see if it…
Posted in software
On distributed revision control and project forking
One of those myths about distributed revision control systems that has grown legs and acquired a heartbeat is that they make forking a project easier. To the uninitiated, a “fork” occurs when some contributors to a project get disgruntled and…
Mercurial Queues
Chris Mason has been working on a very useful extension to Mercurial called Mercurial Queues, or mq for short. It has languished in semi-obscurity for a while on SuSE’s ftp servers, so we’ve made a repository available for people to…
Coworking in San Francisco
I had a chance encounter with Brad Neuberg today, who is trying to get a part-time coworking arrangement off the ground. The idea is that if you do one of those nebulous “new economy” jobs that involves dinking on a…
Posted in slice-o-life
