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 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 [...]
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 source [...]
Posted in mercurial, software on September 21st, 2005 No Comments »
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! [...]
Posted in mercurial, software on July 6th, 2005 No Comments »
Until now, Mercurial only supported tunnelling over an ssh connection when pushing changes to a remote repository. Matt just committed some changes that lets all commands that talk to other repositories work over ssh tunnels.
