Re: switching from CVS to Mercurial

[Shai Ayal]

On Feb 6, 2008 1:06 PM, David Bateman <address@hidden> wrote:
> John W. Eaton wrote:
> > I've decided to go with Mercurial.
> >
> > I'm almost ready to switch to using it exclusively for managing the
> > Octave sources, but before I do that, I thought I'd announce the
> > change, let people check out the archive, and ask for comments on a
> > few more things.
> >
> >
>
> I had a quick look and I have some practical questions. Basically my
> development machine is a laptop and so isn't on line at all times and so
> I can't easily publish the my hg repository directly from my laptop. I
> don't beleive I'll be the only one in that situation. I see a few
> possible solutions
>
> 1) You allow "hg push" to the www.octave.org hg repository, though this
> has some issues with patch reviewing that will probably prevent this. Is
> there a way to have hg push have separate branches for each user pushing
> and you choose to merge what you want.
>
> 2) Users have their own hg repository on a machine that is "always on"
> that they can push to and you pull from. This duplication of
> repositories increases the chances that the repositories are out of
> sync. Also not all users will have easy access to a machine that is
> "always on" and has web access for hg to pull from. Where can we host
> these repositories?

as discussed in a previous thread, there are free mercurial hosting
solutions out there:

http://www.google.com/search?q=mercurial+hosting

So users can set their own public repository


> 3) The user uses "hg export" and generates a patchset that they send by
> e-mail. This is not much different from the current situation, but
> essentially looses out on many of the collaborative development
> advantages that mercurial promises.
>
> What is your preferred collaboration method of the above, or do you have
> any other suggestions? Do you want patches from now as mercurial patchsets?
>
> D.
>
>
>
>
> --
> David Bateman                                address@hidden
> Motorola Labs - Paris                        +33 1 69 35 48 04 (Ph)
> Parc Les Algorithmes, Commune de St Aubin    +33 6 72 01 06 33 (Mob)
> 91193 Gif-Sur-Yvette FRANCE                  +33 1 69 35 77 01 (Fax)
>
> The information contained in this communication has been classified as:
>
> [x] General Business Information
> [ ] Motorola Internal Use Only
> [ ] Motorola Confidential Proprietary
>
>