[Vm-dev] a Cog branch

[laurent laffont]

On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 3:26 AM, Josh Gargus <josh at schwa.ca> wrote:

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


There's http://bitbucket.org/ for Mercurial.

The free account may not be enough, see http://bitbucket.org/plans

"Integration with Lighthouse, Twitter, FogBugz, Basecamp, CIA.vc and more is
included with all plans."

Cheers,

Laurent Laffont

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>
> > 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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