Re: [Boost-users] What's happened to Ryppl?

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] What's happened to Ryppl?
From: Sebastian Redl (sebastian.redl_at_[hidden])
Date: 2011-01-28 05:33:27

On 28.01.2011 10:06, Dean Michael Berris wrote:
> I have to be honest here and say up front that I have no idea what the
> features of mercurial are, so I have some questions with it in
> particular:
> 2. Does it allow for compacting and local compression of assets? Git
> has a rich set of tools for compressing and dealing with local
> repositories. It also has a very efficient way of preserving objects
> across branches and what not.
Mercurial has a completely different storage format from Git.
> 3. Does mercurial work in "email" mode? Git has a way of submitting
> patches via email -- and have the same email read-in by git and parsed
> as an actual "merge". This is convenient for discussing patches in the
> mailing list and preserving the original message/discussion. This
> gives people a chance to publicly review the changes and import the
> same changeset from the same email message.
Yes, Mercurial can format changesets as emails.
> 4. How does mercurial deal with forks? In Git a repository is
> automatically a fork of the source repository. I don't know whether
> every mercurial repo is the same as a Git repo though -- meaning
> whether the same repository can be exposed to a number of protocols
> and dealt with like any other Git repo (push/pull/merge/compact, etc.)
Hg and Git deal with forks pretty much the same way. There are some 
minor differences in the handling of anonymous branching within a single 
clone (i.e. what happens when you are not on the most recent commit and 
do a commit yourself), I believe.
Hg actually has a plug-in that lets it push and pull to/from a Git server.
>> Also, Mercurial works better on Windows than git does in my experience
>> --- the git port for Windows is relatively recent, whereas Mercurial has
>> supported Windows for a while. Since many of the boost developers use
>> Windows I would have thought this was an important consideration. I
>> haven't any personal experience of bazaar, so don't know how it fares in
>> this regard.
>>
> I've used Msysgit for the most part, and it works very well --
> actually, works the same in Linux as it does in Windows. Are we
> talking about the same Windows port of Git?
I don't think Git currently has any integration plug-ins like TortoiseHg 
(Explorer) or VisualHg (Visual Studio).

The think I like most about Git over Mercurial is the extensive history 
rewriting capability (hg rebase -i). Wonderful for cleaning up my local 
commit mess before pushing.

Sebastian