Re: Moving to Octave Forge to mercurial

[Philip Nienhuis]

Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso wrote:
> On 13 June 2013 12:53, PhilipNienhuis<address@hidden>  wrote:
> > However, for a simple package like io with just one maintainer, svn works
> > wonderfully simple and reliably. For such cases mercurial just looks
> > overkill to me.
>
> The problems I've worked with you in the past with hg were precisely
> about how to collaborate with others. If you only work with yourself,
> hg should be as simple as svn.

Sure, I remember those conversations and I appreciate your guiding hand, 
thanks again. Yet substituting three hg commands for just one svn 
command isn't what I would call "as simple" [1]

[1] svn:  "ci"
mercurial: "hg pull -u && hg ci && hg push" (from your email of May 28, 
2012)

You suggested to try TortoiseHG; I had tried that already earlier on and 
I found it installed another one of those malware-prone Windows services 
("daemons"), with the sole purpose of being able to show the proper icon 
before the file name in Windows Explorer. That did it for me ("it" 
meaning: inviting to dump such crap-/bloatware)
Sad as TortoiseSVN works very well and needs no daemons.

Philip