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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 [...]
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, [...]

Been a busy month

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 [...]
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 [...]
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.
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 [...]
Here follows the text of a message I posted to the Mercurial mailing list earlier today. As I mentioned the other day, I will not be contributing to Mercurial development for a while. Several people have asked me why. At my workplace, we use a commercial SCM tool called BitKeeper to manage a number of source [...]
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 it’s a Windows executable. You can’t even tell that Mercurial is a Python application! [...]
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 decide to take the code, make their own changes, and start a new project based on [...]

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 pull from directly. Several years ago, Andrew Morton published some scripts that he used to manage patches [...]

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