Re: hggroup available in graphics archive

[Shai Ayal]

On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 1:26 PM, Michael Goffioul
<address@hidden> wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 11:18 AM, Shai Ayal <address@hidden> wrote:
>  >  > If Shai and John agree, then we can try this way of working.
>  >
>  >  What I understand from this email exchange is that the graphics
>  >  archive will turn into an archive of patches.
>
>  Somehow, yes.
>
>
>  >  Will we loose some of the nice features we have now ? (nice web
>  >  interface + RSS, change notification emails).
>
>  Not really, as the patches will be under hg revision. But I'm
>  not sure how this will reflect in the web interface. Apprently,
>  when doing "hg qinit -c", this is equivalent as doing
>  "hg init" in .hg/patches. So I guess there will be a separate
>  archive for patches, where you'll still have the web interface,
>  RSS, email notifications...
>
>
>  >  What other hg features are we giving up by using qptaches?
>
>  I think that it will makes things a little bit more complicated
>  for us, while greatly simplifying John's task of merging.

I'm more concerned about how complicated it would be for an anonymous
person to get a working copy of the graphics repository -- I would
like it as accessible as possible so we can get more input.