Posted in open source, scm on September 10th, 2009 2 Comments »
Several months ago, I wrote an article on evaluating revision control systems. It was initially published in ACM Queue a few weeks ago, and the article has now made its way (unchanged) to Communications of the ACM. I’m quite happy with how it turned out, and I hope that people will find it useful in [...]
Posted in mercurial on May 15th, 2009 5 Comments »
As of about a week ago, O’Reilly’s production team has the manuscript of the Mercurial book. Thanks to everyone who has submitted so many comments during the writing process!
If you watch the Mercurial development tree, you’ll have noticed that over the past few years, I’ve done almost no work on Mercurial itself. The software has [...]
Posted in mercurial on March 27th, 2009 15 Comments »
If you’ve looked at the Mercurial book site in the past 24 hours, you’ll have noticed that both its look and the name of the book have changed.
First, the cosmetic news. The change in appearance is due to my switching over to the system I used to publish Real World Haskell. I’ve always made the [...]
Posted in scm, software on December 16th, 2008 No Comments »
Via the ever industrious Danny O’Brien, we bring to you the Electronic Frontier Foundation’s end-of-year animation.
Learn more about this video and support EFF!
Posted in scm on January 11th, 2007 11 Comments »
I’ve been using darcs recently for some Haskell-related revision control tasks, as it’s the revision control tool of choice for the Haskell community (no surprise; it’s the most widely used Haskell program in existence).
However, I can’t say I’ve been all that happy with darcs during my first few days of use. It has some behaviours [...]
Posted in mercurial, software on July 24th, 2006 1 Comment »
I’m giving a talk at OSCON in Portland this week; the title is “Painless maintenance of local changes to fast-moving software”. The content is about how managing and developing patches with Mercurial Queues will make you a happier person and straighten your teeth while you sleep, all for free.
The talk is in room F150, [...]
Posted in mercurial, software on July 15th, 2006 No Comments »
Couple my usual reluctance to post here with work on a new all-consuming project, and you have a recipe for potentially long periods of silence.
Yesterday, I posted an announcement of the availability of the first chapter of the Mercurial manual to the mailing list. You can read the first chapter here (PDF only thus [...]
Posted in mercurial, software on June 12th, 2006 No Comments »
The weekend in London, now almost a week past, was sufficiently intense that I didn’t have the energy to write it up as I went along, or indeed to write much of anything about it until now.
Of course we didn’t come to any conclusions about one project subsuming the other, but we did gain a [...]
Posted in mercurial, software on June 7th, 2006 No Comments »
I’m giving a talk on Mercurial at Baypiggies, the San Francisco Bay Area Python user’s group, tomorrow evening at 7:30pm.
If you’re a local Mercurial user and we haven’t met, please feel free to come along. If you don’t use Mercurial, you’re welcome to attend and see what it’s all about.
Posted in mercurial, software on June 1st, 2006 No Comments »
A few weeks ago, Mark Shuttleworth showed up on IRC, and invited several core developers from the Mercurial and Bazaar-NG to visit London, on Canonical, Ltd’s shilling. The purpose of the joint visit is to discuss possible points of collaboration between the two projects.
I got to come along as gadfly-in-chief, or filler-of-the-bug-database, or some [...]
