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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 [...]
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 [...]
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! Uses [...]
Posted in scm, software on September 16th, 2005 No Comments »
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 [...]
Posted in scm, software on September 8th, 2005 No Comments »
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 [...]
Posted in scm, software on August 24th, 2005 No Comments »
I gave a talk on distributed SCMs at Foo Camp last weekend. The slides are now available as a PDF document. The talk was an overview of the current state of the Free Software distributed SCM world; I didn’t concentrate on any one system. The talk was surprisngly (to me) well attended, particularly given its [...]
Posted in scm, software on August 10th, 2005 1 Comment »
Ian Bicking has written two thoughtful articles on distributed and centralised revision control systems (the first, the second). His original thesis was one that he shared with Greg Hudson, one of the Subversion developers: for free software, distributed SCM bad, centralised good. He had four main points, which I have reduced to three: 0 Work [...]
Posted in scm, software on August 10th, 2005 No Comments »
[I originally posted this about two weeks ago, but something caused it to disappear. Here's a lightly edited repost.] Karl Fogel posted a comment on my future of free distributed SCM systems entry, asking for some more detail on what it is that I don’t like about Subversion. That’s a tall order. Since Karl is [...]
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