On Sun, Oct 07, 2007 at 11:06:58PM +0200, Ondrej Certik wrote:
> 
> > When playing with mercurial, I suggest to have a closer look at 
> > merqurial-queues
> >
> > http://hgbook.red-bean.com/hgbookch12.html
> > http://hgbook.red-bean.com/hgbookch13.html
> >
> > and record
> >
> > http://www.selenic.com/mercurial/wiki/index.cgi/RecordExtension
> >
> > extensions
> 
> I also played with Mercurial in the meantime and I like it. It has a
> similar syntax as svn (as opposed to git) and it is well documented.
> The above extensions are also very useful.
> 
> Is it possible to somehow use both svn and mercurial for some time, to
> see if it works for us (and have a backdoor to switch back to svn, if
> it doesn't)?

I think it is possible.

We could setup tailor (http://progetti.arstecnica.it/tailor/) to perform
both-ways conversion, or we could try to use convert extension.

I have not used any of those with mercurial (I used tailor for other
VCSes though), but I can try to perform the migration in my spare time
(think it will be 2-4 days).

> I usually hate to learn these patch/vcs systems, I prefer to code
> instead. For example I never really learned how to use diff properly
> (I never remember, which directory goes first and which options to

It is really simple -- as in 'cp src dest' we have 'diff old new'.

> use). But maybe Mercurial is a solution to my problems. I learned how
> to use svn, so I usually create a new repository for antyhing i want
> to patch and then I can easily generate any patches etc. But the
> 
> http://hgbook.red-bean.com/hgbookch12.html
> 
> seems better suited for this task.

Glad you value that.

-- 
    Всего хорошего, Кирилл.
    http://landau.phys.spbu.ru/~kirr/aiv/

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