[Adium-devl] Version Control

[Augie Fackler]

One question I have is do you want all commits to be with @adiumx.com  
addresses, or should we use something else? I have one, but it's  
really a forward-only to my gmail...

On Feb 3, 2008, at 2:03 AM, David Smith wrote:

> This is the somewhat overdue writeup of what was discussed at the
> meeting ( http://trac.adiumx.com/wiki/AdiumMeetings/2008-01-24 ), and
> what our current status is.
>
> Brief summary:
> 	• Majority opinion is strongly with Mercurial
> 	• Installation instructions at http://trac.adiumx.com/wiki/InstallingMercurial
> 	• SVN importer doesn't like multi-branch commits; Peter and Colin are
> fixing it, then we'll be able to clone a full Adium tree and really
> start testing
> 	• http://hgbook.red-bean.com/hgbook.html is the best documentation
> I've read so far (thanks Peter!)
> 	• Main other candidates were svn, git, bzr
> 		• git is complicated/hard to learn, and doesn't do nice rev #s
> 		• bzr is slowish and lacks record (has shelve, but that's a little
> less powerful). There was some skepticism about the lack of adoption
> elsewhere in the industry as well.
> 		• svn lacks local commits and branches, record, and fancy dvcs  
> merging
>
> Until the importer is improved, it's difficult to really get a feel
> for things like speed and large-project workflow, so hopefully that
> will be finished soon. For those people who really don't care about
> DVCS features, it looks like it should be possible to use the alias
> plugin to get the UI looking relatively identical (see the
> sample .hgrc here: http://wikis.sun.com/display/SunOnMac/MercurialTips
> for how to enable aliases, and what the syntax is) This is good, since
> there were at least two people in the discussion who were definitely
> unhappy about moving away from svn, and I'd rather not leave them out
> in the cold.
>
> Other version control systems briefly discussed included darcs
> (removed from consideration because only one person liked it, and
> several detested it), monotone (nobody in the discussion likes it)
>
> 											David
>
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