I have no objections to moving JBT source base from SVN to Merurial,
if that's a superior version control system.

On Jul 4, 9:10 pm, shaggsthestud <[email protected]> wrote:
> I posted a new hg bundle file in the files section, that should have
> changesets for 7.04, 7.05, and 7.06.
>
> If you don't know what hg is, it is a revision control, or version
> control, system, similiar to CVS, SVN, GIT, etc.
>
> Basically it is software that easily lets you keep track of what
> changes you made to a collection of files at various points in time.
> This is extremely useful if you want to modify code.  For instance, if
> you notice there is a huge bug in your code, you can look back at your
> recent snapshots of your code, and find one that doesn't have the
> bug.  You can then look at all the changes you made, and try and
> deduce where the bug started.  Or you can just throw out all your work
> since your last snapshot (called a "commit").     If, later, there is
> a new version of JBookTrader, you can use the software to merge the
> changes you made, with the changes in the latest JBookTrader, to
> effectively upgrade your project to the latest version.
>
> I personally use it to keep track of all my little side projects that
> I am working on with JBookTrader.  I also use it to keep track of
> other projects I am working on as well - anything that is longer than
> 20 lines of code can really benefit from keeping a change history -
> because you will inevitably break your code at some point, and trying
> to keep track of changes by keeping a bunch of ZIP files is so much
> harder to work with.
>
> All professional software projects use some form of version control.
> JBookTrader is also maintained in a version controlled system, called
> SVN (subversion), which you can track through the google code
> project.  If you want to keep your own local change history, you
> should probably use something like  hg (mercurial) to do all of that
> on your own computer.

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