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How to migrate from darcs to Mercurial or git

Posted in haskell, mercurial, open source on October 21st, 2010 7 Comments »

Converting a Mercurial tree repeatedly with files removed

Posted in mercurial on August 10th, 2010 1 Comment »

Here's a useful little tip if you need to use hg convert to generate a stripped-down copy of a Mercurial repository. For instance, maybe we have a tree that someone committed a large file to by accident, or perhaps someone accidentally checked some closed source code into an open source tree. If such a commit [...]

Mercurial book is now in production, and a little gift

Posted in mercurial on May 15th, 2009 6 Comments »

Mercurial: The Definitive Guide

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 [...]

OSCON 2006: Come see me talk

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, [...]

Been a busy month

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 [...]

The joint Mercurial / Bazaar-NG sprint: aftermath

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 [...]

Baypiggies talk, tomorrow, June 8

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.

Joint Mercurial / Bazaar-NG sprint

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 [...]

Mercurial: I am just going outside and may be some time

Posted in mercurial, software on October 1st, 2005 No Comments »

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 [...]

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