Tag Archives: mercurial

Free Mercurial hosting for open source projects on GitLab fork Heptapod

The Trosnoth source code has been kept in a Mercurial repository on BitBucket since not long after we migrated from Subversion many years ago. But BitBucket no longer supports Mercurial repositories: all existing Mercurial repositories on BitBucket will be shut … Continue reading

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Exchanging Work in Progress with Mercurial

The Problem I work with other people on software projects. Sometimes it would be really handy to be able to exchange unstable work in progress with other developers, without having to commit the work as a permanent changeset in our … Continue reading

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Using Mercurial instead of Drop Box

Recently I’ve had a number of friends telling me how fantastic Drop Box is for synchronising files and how they don’t understand that I don’t use it.  Drop Box has one very good argument in its favour: you can use … Continue reading

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Mercurial Woes

Introduction I mentioned previously that the Trosnoth programmers have been looking at migrating from subversion to mercurial for source control. I took it upon myself to convert the subversion history to mercurial history as seamlessly as possible. Here I document … Continue reading

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Trosnoth: Mercurial server

Myself and the other Trosnoth developers have been looking at moving from subversion to mercurial for our source code control. I’ll blog about some of my adventures doing the conversion later, because today I want to talk about the mercurial … Continue reading

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