[Adium-devl] Version Control

[Colin Barrett]

Nah, nothing crazy like that. See this page for more information on  
how to get remote, multi-user push set up with hg:

http://www.selenic.com/mercurial/wiki/index.cgi/MultipleCommitters

Ignore the hg-login stuff, hg-ssh is robust and distributed along with  
Mercurial. Plus, this way we get to use ssh keys (ftw!)

-Colin

On Feb 4, 2008, at 11:05 AM, Augie Fackler wrote:

> 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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