On October 24, 2006 2:53 PM Jay Belanger wrote: > > "Bill Page" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > ... > >> but svn had stopped working for me, and git finally gave me > >> a working silver branch of Axiom, and quickly, too. > >> > > > > What was your problem svn? Did you try the Google Code mirror? > > When I tried to check out from axiom-developer, I kept getting > errors.
Me too, although usually after restarting the process 5 or 6 times I could get the whole thing. :-( Not very satisfactory, I agree. > I could check out from google, but it was an older version that > had build problems. ??? To the best of my ability to make this true, the contents of the SVN repository on Google is identical the the SourceForge repository. A batch job runs 'svk sync' from SourceForge to Google every night. Please let me know if you suspect any differences between these two repositories. > > > Apparently Mercurial was developed partly in response to > > criticism of git by another group of developers working the > > linux kernel. > > I guess that git and mercurial are supposed to play nice together. > Yes. The user interface is nearly the same. Mercurial uses a radically different way of storing revisions and generating versions which is claimed to be faster. After a quick look at this to me it seems rather similar to what darcs does - manipulating and composing patches rather than always creating intermediate versions. > > After installing mercurial do this: > > hg clone http://page.axiom-developer.org/repo/hgwebdir.cgi/axiom/build-improvements > > Thanks. > I think you will find install mercurial surprisingly easy. Let me know how this turns out. Regards, Bill Page. _______________________________________________ Axiom-developer mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/axiom-developer
