On 2/7/07, David Harvey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I am very annoyed with hg. We have been using it for several months > now, but still, pretty much *every* time I use it, I get confused as to > what I am doing. It always ends up wasting a lot of my time. The > warnings/error messages are unhelpful, and somehow the whole system is > very unintuitive to me. Yes, I tried the tutorial in the SAGE manual, > and it didn't help. > > By way of contrast, I find svn dead easy. I'm not suggesting we use > svn... it's probably not appropriate for SAGE, but I'm just making the > point that there does exist a version control system that I find easy > to use. I also recall finding darcs much easier to use than hg.
I think that I've been spoiled by darcs. I hate that you have to clone your directory to patch things, because you can't choose what changes to send, like in darcs. I think I miss that the most. Also, patches are not text files by default, although you can "export" them. Does anyone know how to unapply patches from a repository? I also hate that when you commit changes without a message, hg exits abnormally WITHOUT telling you that you need a message to commit your changes. didier > > I don't know if I'm the only one having this problem. If it's just me, > then I guess I just have to get my act together and work it out. But if > there are others on this list with the same problem, please speak up. > If there are enough of us, then I would be *really* happy if someone > could do a "Mercurial for Dummies" talk at SD3. Just go through a few > typical workflows, and explain rwhat the hell is going on in each one. > > David > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://sage.scipy.org/sage/ and http://modular.math.washington.edu/sage/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
