[Vm-dev] a Cog branch

keith keith_hodges at yahoo.co.uk
Fri Jun 25 02:03:50 UTC 2010


Bazaar is better than mercurial, one of the launchpad team is a  
squeaker.

Launchpad is better than github.

Keith

On 25 Jun 2010, at 02:26, Josh Gargus wrote:

>
> 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:
>>>
>>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>> -- 
>> Best regards,
>> Igor Stasenko AKA sig.
>



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