On Mar 27, 3:11 pm, Jason Martin <jason.worth.mar...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Dave,
>
> Welcome and Thanks!
>
> If you're interested in using a distributed version control system,
> could I convince you to use Mercurial instead of git? The
> functionality is similar between the two of them, but since Mercurial
> is written in Python, it is quite a bit more portable. I think that
> TortoiseHG is even somewhat usable now, so perhaps the WIndows users
> could use it, too.
>
> In any case, since Sage is using Mercurial, most of the "initial user
> community" for MPIR will be familiar with Mercurial.
Hi Jason
I thought that I would take a look at Mercurial but when I wen here:
http://hgbook.red-bean.com/hgbook.pdf
I couldn't download the documentation. Is this available elsewhere?
I am aware that there is an online version but I was lookig for
something I could read offline.
Brian
>
> --jason
>
> On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 9:50 AM, Cactus <rieman...@googlemail.com> wrote:
>
> > On Mar 27, 1:27 pm, Dave <dhow...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> Hi all,
>
> >> I'm a postgrad student at Warwick, and I'm hoping to start
> >> contributing to MPIR in the next weeks and months.
>
> >> My plan is to implement some basic arithmetic in MIPS, and then tidy
> >> up the mpir_n functions, but to start I'm going to setup a git
> >> repository to track the SVN repo.
>
> >> If anyone is interested in switching to using git instead of SVN, then
> >> let me know and we can try to sort out a central git repository (maybe
> >> someone has already made their own?). I've chatted with Bill, and we
> >> can certainly have something on one of his machines here at Warwick.
>
> >> I don't know if any of you have experience with git, but I would
> >> certainly recommend that you take a look at it if you've not come
> >> across it before. SVN is incredibly slow and cumbersome in
> >> comparison. A lot of work has been done recently to make it more user
> >> friendly, and there are a few windows ports on the way...
>
> > Welcome to our community Dave.
>
> > I must admit to being a novice user of repositories in general and I
> > have very little idea of what the pros and cons of CVS, SVN, Mercurial
> > and GIT are. But I am surprised how dumb SVN is in that it blindly
> > copies and downloads everything in a branch even when files are
> > identical to those in other branches. It doesn't use intelligent
> > referencing (copy only on change) as I would expect
>
> > But as a 'Windows only' user I don't see much for me in GIT right now.
>
> > Brian
>
>
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