> This seemed like a good idea to everybody responsible to the server, > but I raised the idea of switching TG2 to mercurial in a private > e-mail to the parties involved. > > Obviously this is something that we should all talk about on the > mailing list before we even think seriously about making a switch in > our core development processes. So, here's my personal thinking so > far: > > 1) Alberto's got a neat setup on the toscawidgets site, where > mercurial, trac, and everything are all part of a single system with a > single username/password.
Nice for sure - but I don't find this as compelling as these admin-tasks aren't so common. I say that as someone in responsibility for trac and svn servers myself :) > 2) Alberto's setup would allow us to host trac sites for projects like > silverplate, or tg.ext.geo with their own mercurial repositories very > easily. I don't understand this. Do they use mercurial, which is why we can't host them today? > 3) Mecurial's main advantages are easy branching/merging and the > ability to do commits offline Can someone with mercurial experience provide some scenarios where using mercurial over SVN is offering a really compelling advantage? I'm aware of the offline-commits, but don't consider this as *to* important, simply because anything that really counts is a commit into our server repository (and that should be that way, otherwise we lose data if a local repository gets corrupted), and at least I (and I think many if not most people) have very frequent internet access. So - what are the things you guys stumble upon developing TG2 and thinking "boy, I wish it was mercurial"? > 4) Pylons, Beaker, Routes, WebHelpers, and many other upstream > projects already use mercurial. Others use SVN. As do many projects that use TG and for example use svn:externals. Diez --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TurboGears Trunk" group. 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/turbogears-trunk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
