[Adium-devl] Version Control

[Colin Barrett]

Personally I don't think it matters much -- as long as it's an email  
address you can be contacted at.

Also, note that the "Your Name <email at domain.com>" format for  
committers isn't enforced by Mercurial -- just expected by a lot of  
tools.

-Colin

On Feb 4, 2008, at 10:55 AM, Augie Fackler wrote:

> 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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