[Adium-devl] Version Control

[Colin Barrett]

On Feb 6, 2008, at 8:56 PM, Augie Fackler wrote:
>
> On Feb 6, 2008, at 10:51 PM, Peter Hosey wrote:
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>> On Feb 06, 2008, at 20:44:01, Colin Barrett wrote:
>>> an inordinate amount of work
>>
>> What's so hard about hgclone 'Colin Barrett <colin at adiumx.com> http://hg.adiumx.com:8000/adium?
>
> I agree with Colin on a lazy level here. That said, see http://pink.bikeshed.org/
>  - this doesn't *really* matter, and it's getting in the way of
> Getting Work Done. FWIW, I think that just using whatever email
> address you want should be fine - I'd much rather be known by one
> email address (that's something I'm planning to change soon) rather
> than one per project...

It's also that I *will* forget to do this and I *will* commit  
revisions as Colin Barrett <timber at lava.net>. I will probably remember  
that I did this before I push (looking at the output of hg log), and  
then I'll have to go and rewrite those revisions using transplant or  
worse, replaying revisions into a new clone, which is a pain in the  
ass.  It's happened to me before when doing mozilla stuff -- for a  
while I tried to use cbarrett at mozilla.com for my moz-related hg stuff  
and timber at lava.net for my personal stuff, but after messing up with  
new clones and losing hours to what basically amounted to vanity, I  
just gave up. It wasn't worth the effort.

Totally agree with Augie here. This is a bikeshed.

As for the whole vcs thing being a bikeshed, I think that in some ways  
you're right -- the discussion did get bikesheddy. The vcs meeting  
helped a lot with that though.

-Colin