[Vm-dev] a Cog branch

[Josh Gargus]

On Jun 24, 2010, at 5:17 PM, Igor Stasenko wrote:

> 
> Does Mercurial provides an infrastructure like github?

Google Code hosting supports Mercurial. I'm not sure specifically what infrastructure you're talking about; does Google Code meet your needs?


> I mean, if it doesn't , then it is nothing better than svn (the fact
> that i could have a full copy
> of repository locally doesn't much matters).
> I really don't care what version control system used as a backend, i
> care about infrastructure around it.
> On a github its ultimately easy to get started and make own fork(s) of
> existing projects,

Not sure how well Google Code meets that need.  Anyone?

Cheers,
Josh



> and moreover, all such things are tracked, not just sources.
> So, users could see how much forks there, and could navigate through
> them etc etc.
> The fancy & clever diff/merge etc things is cool, but used seldom,
> because 99% of times you just doing
> edit/commit.
> 
> On 25 June 2010 02:46, Josh Gargus <josh at schwa.ca> wrote:
>> 
>> +1 Mercurial, -1 Git.
>> Cheers,
>> Josh
>> 
>> 
>> On Jun 24, 2010, at 3:43 PM, Eliot Miranda wrote:
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>> On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 8:13 AM, Igor Stasenko <siguctua at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Eliot, how about using github for it?
>> 
>> I think that's great for the whole Squeak VM not just Cog.  I'm not doing this now because I think Cog should live with the rest of the Squeak VM.  Let's start a separate discussion on whether we should move http://squeakvm.org/svn/squeak to github, or at least to git with a home on machines we control..
>> 
>>> 
>>> It would be much convenient for use, since it supports branching and
>>> no need for someone to be added to 'official' list of contributors in
>>> order to push own
>>> patches.
>>> Anyone could make own fork at any time, and at any time, a core
>>> developer could backport the changes
>>> into official repository.
>>> I think github model is very good for community development. Then i,
>>> for instance, could
>>> push my own changes into my branch, and it will be easy to track,
>>> exchange and port the code between
>>> forks and official repository.
>> 
>> Agreed.  Git and/or Mercurial is much better than svn.
>> best
>> Eliot
>>> 
>>> On 23 June 2010 21:48, Eliot Miranda <eliot.miranda at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> Hi All,
>>>>     I need to be able to push fixes to Cog into general circulation and for this I'd like to maintain a Cog branch in the Subversion tree.  But how do I get permission and/or credentials?  What's the process to add me to those allowed to write to the repository? Or is there simply a secret username and password that's told to a few?  If the later can some kind soul let me have the password.  I faithfully promise not to abuse the privilege.
>>>> best
>>>> Eliot
>>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> --
>>> Best regards,
>>> Igor Stasenko AKA sig.
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> Best regards,
> Igor Stasenko AKA sig.