Hi Jason, I have only briefly looked at Mercurial, mainly because it wasn't as fast as git, and I was in a Mac/Linux development environment (and didn't require cross platform compatibility).
Do you have any experience of using Mercurial and svn together? It would be interesting to see how git and Mercurial compare with each other. I do know that the branching in Mercurial isn't quite as flexible as in GIT, but I'm not sure how this would affect my use of it! David, 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. > > --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 --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "mpir-devel" group. To post to this group, send email to mpir-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to mpir-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/mpir-devel?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
