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One nice thing about Subversion is that it's easy to host repos yourself. One not-so-nice thing about Subversion is that it's centralised, which kind of puts a kink in the style I'd developed while using subjecting myself to Git. Someone brought up Mercurial on IRC today, and I realised I hadn't given it a fair shake, so that's what I'm doing now.
In a quick tour of the Mercurial docs I couldn't find an easy and complete way to host repos on one's own, but it turns out I'd actually signed up on Bitbucket a couple of weeks ago. It didn't take long to get a repo set up and pushed, and that owes to its large similarity to Github.
Now comes the interesting part -- trying Mercurial for a month or two to see how well it fits. Worst case, back to Subversion I go.
In a quick tour of the Mercurial docs I couldn't find an easy and complete way to host repos on one's own, but it turns out I'd actually signed up on Bitbucket a couple of weeks ago. It didn't take long to get a repo set up and pushed, and that owes to its large similarity to Github.
Now comes the interesting part -- trying Mercurial for a month or two to see how well it fits. Worst case, back to Subversion I go.
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on 2011-10-02 07:16 (UTC)http://hginit.com/00.html
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on 2011-10-02 08:17 (UTC)no subject
on 2011-10-02 16:49 (UTC)Git still scares me a bit :-) I wanted to switch to git purely for github, but I think I actually prefer hg. Bitbucket looks OK, but not quite as featureful as github (and the github guys insist it's just a rip-off of their work!).
Not sure what you mean by host your own repos? Surely 'hg init' is what you're after?
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on 2011-10-02 17:02 (UTC)What I mean by hosting my own repos is the equivalent of installing gitolite for Git or mod_dav_svn -- a way of setting up my own central, pushable repo with access control in a way that the docs don't caution against. :)
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on 2011-10-04 20:13 (UTC)