Thanks, mike. :) On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 10:36 PM, Mike Meyer <m...@mired.org> wrote:
> On Mon, 18 Jul 2011 21:18:29 -0700 > Jeremy Anderson <jere...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Out of curiosity, why are you converting from mercurial? > > While you weren't asking me, I converted from mercurial (and did the > hg -> git -> fossil path) to fossil, so feel an answer from me isn't > unreasonable. > > > I ask because my friends and I adopted fossil and other friends of ours > are > > asking us why we didn't go with mercurial instead. I didn't really have a > > good answer, apart from "fossil seemed smaller (footprint, > use-complexity) > > and cooler" =) > > I'm an independent consultant, and often work for small companies that > don't have a corporate SCM or issue tracking system, etc. I originally > looked at fossil because I couldn't get a working build of mercurial > on an antiquated solaris system (couldn't seem to get a Python build > to use any of the ssl libraries, which broke hg even if you aren't > using ssl). Getting a working fossil build on that system was easy - > just turn off SSL in the Makefile. > > Once I had it up and working, investigating the wiki and issue > tracking system was free, and turned out to be a real win. All for > less work than setting up hg (or git) in the first place. Being able > to have multiple checkouts of the same repository is also a win - I > keep multiple branches checked out, and can merge differences without > a push/pull, and can then push all of it to my clients machine. > > I still use hg for projects I release as open source, mostly because > the major hosting sites (I prefer google code) don't support it. To > make up for that, I plan to make adding fossil support to cabal as one > of my next projects. > > <mike > -- > Mike Meyer <m...@mired.org> http://www.mired.org/ > Independent Software developer/SCM consultant, email for more information. > > O< ascii ribbon campaign - stop html mail - www.asciiribbon.org > _______________________________________________ > fossil-users mailing list > fossil-users@lists.fossil-scm.org > http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users >
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