[Adium-devl] Version Control

[Augie Fackler]

Agreed - I just wanted to make sure we weren't doing some crazy if  
@adiumx.com then is a committer thing, which just seems silly.

On Feb 4, 2008, at 1:01 PM, Colin Barrett wrote:

> 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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