[Adium-devl] Version Control

[Chris Forsythe]

Correction, make that two (just saw Augie's email)

I'm with Augie on that this doesn't matter that much, it's definitely  
bikeshed (the whole vcs thing was a bikeshed thing imho, but anyhow).  
Let's get this decided by midnight california time on Friday, and  
move on.

Chris

On Feb 6, 2008, at 11:00 PM, Chris Forsythe wrote:

> You seem to be the only one who wants to go with random email
> addresses, everyone else (out of those who have commented) seems to
> be alright with having some kind of naming standard. I don't see the
> problem with the ~1-5 seconds worth of typing you'll have to do if it
> helps the team as a whole, honestly. Especially since 2 key team
> members have already said that they want this for a specific reason,
> and you only dislike it because it'll cause you a very minor bit of
> work due to the way your system is setup.
>
> Are there other solutions to this? Can hg for instance save a
> username per hostname in the global config file? Is this even a
> problem? To be honest it's just a username, one way we go it has some
> kind of meaning in certain situations, the other way has no meaning
> at all, and it's just a crapshoot of randomness. I prefer some sense
> of order here.
>
> I don't see the value in what you are proposing Colin, so maybe you
> could put it into another way that benefits the team more than what
> Peter and Evan are wanting, then we'd better understand why you are
> wanting it the way you are wanting it beyond "I don't want to type a
> few extra characters every now and then". :)
>
> Chris
>
> On Feb 6, 2008, at 10:44 PM, Colin Barrett wrote:
>
>> Both of these options seem like an inordinate amount of work to solve
>> a problem we really do not have.
>>
>> I remain unconvinced. You guys can use @adiumx.com email addresses if
>> you want, I'll stick with the email address I've been using for 11
>> years.
>>
>> -Colin
>>
>> On Feb 6, 2008, at 10:46 AM, Peter Hosey wrote:
>>
>>> On Feb 06, 2008, at 10:34:13, Peter Hosey wrote:
>>>> On Feb 06, 2008, at 05:55:05, Colin Barrett wrote:
>>>>> Primarily, it is annoying to set up. I must either 1) have
>>>>> colin at adiumx.com
>>>>>  be in my global .hgrc or 2) modify the .hgrc of the new  
>>>>> repository
>>>>> every time I make anew clone to include "username = Colin
>>>>> Barrett <colin at adiumx.com
>>>>>> , and if I forget, then there are commits made by "Colin
>>>>>> Barrett <timber at lava.net
>>>>>> instead.
>>>>
>>>> I just whipped up a solution:
>>>
>>> Another solution would be hg config:
>>>
>>> http://www.selenic.com/mercurial/wiki/index.cgi/ConfigExtension
>>>
>>> hg clone http://hg.adiumx.com:8000/adium
>>> cd adium
>>> hg config --local ui.username 'Colin Barrett <colin at adiumx.com>'
>>>
>>> Mine's easier for this purpose; I mention this alternative for
>>> completeness.
>>>
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