Tag: mercurial
hg.complete.org is no more
February 29th, 2008, 2 Comments
As of today, hg.complete.org is no more. I have removed mercurial and hgwebdir from my server, removed hg from my DNS zone, and converted everything that was in Mercurial over to Git. (Except for hg-buildpackage, which I have orphaned) So there is now stuff at git.complete.org. I still have a ton of Darcs repos to [...]
Revisiting Git and Mercurial
February 22nd, 2008, 9 Comments
Exactly one year ago today, I wrote about Git, Mercurial, and Bzr. I have long been interested in VCS, and looked at the three main DVCS systems back then. A Quick Review Mercurial was, and for the moment, remains, my main VCS. Bzr remains really uninteresting; I don’t see it offering anything compelling that Mercurial [...]
Mercurial & Git
March 18th, 2007, 6 Comments
About two weeks ago, I wrote about my thoughts on Mercurial and how I was switching to it from Darcs. At the time, I had skipped Git because of its lack of Windows support. I have some contributors to pieces of Free Software that I write that use Windows, and that seemed a pretty big [...]
Re-Examining Darcs & Mercurial
March 6th, 2007, 9 Comments
I recently wrote an article or two about distributed version control systems. I’ve been using Darcs since 2005. I switched to Darcs, in fact, 10 days after the simultaneous founding announcements of git and Mercurial. Overall, I have been happy. I continue to believe that it is the most distributed of the distributed VCSs, which [...]
