Using a decentralized version control system (DVCS) like Mercurial (hg) or Git as a client for Subversion is very common. With the unique features of a DVCS a developer can have both the features of offline development and local branching while still being able to push to a subversion server. This approach is often used [...]
For those of you, who didn’t notice so far, in the last 6 month we worked on a more userfriendly and accessible page than the current mercurial website. Three weeks ago we launched hg-scm.org which is quite similar to git-scm.org. I hope you enjoy it
I remember the days when I started learning Git about two years ago. I crawled through all the available commands and read the man pages what they are for and I remember when I stumbled over rebase and stuck. After figuring out what it actually does, I start loving it, but didn’t understand it’s dangerousness [...]
Okay, this is one of the posts I wanted to since about 1 year, but now, nearly 2 years after the first git vs. Mercurial blog post I finally made it to actually write a second time about this topic. A first notice: I won’t cover bazaar. I personally hate it with passion and think [...]
A few month ago, Matt Mackall the maintainer of the Mercurial version control system, came up with the idea to implement so called bookmarks for mercurial.
I recently discovered bitbucket.org which is a polished hosting platform for mercurial. It is pretty much like github.com but much smaller. I really like the idea and the implementation of having a cooperative platform which allows you to watch and fork projects. So that’s why I moved my hgbookmarks implementation from freehg.org over to bitbucket.org [...]
For quiet some while, I play around with distributed version control systems. Particularly GIT. To think outside of the box I, sometimes try out mercurial. Mercurial works like a charm, only the lack of using a pager to display logs or other long output annoyed me. For sure I could define an alias or always [...]
After using CVS and SVN for years now, I finally stumbled over distributed version control systems (DVCS). Beside the commercial BitKeeper there are various Open Source projects around. The most famous is probably GIT which was initially developed by Linus Torvalds and is now maintained by Junio C. Hamano. An other approach is Mercurial which [...]