On 05.08.2008 12:03, Peter Arrenbrecht wrote: > On Tue, Aug 5, 2008 at 11:58 AM, Adrian Buehlmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On 05.08.2008 10:57, Peter Arrenbrecht wrote: >>> Besides, I agree with TK that unless there are very compelling reasons >>> to cherry-pick fixes, THg should track Hg's official releases. This >>> way it's much easier for people to know what Hg they've got and >>> communicate this in bug reports and such. >> Besides, what's so difficult about >> >>> hg version >> Mercurial Distributed SCM (version 626cb86a6523+tortoisehg) >> >> when reporting bugs? > > Not so difficult when reporting, agreed. But rather harder to get a > feel for whether this already contains a specific bugfix or not when, > for instance, trying to help people on IRC. Much easier to remember of > Hg 1.0.1 contains a fix, than all the hex ids floating around. >
Well, if you want to help people on IRC, then don't push out new releases that contain important unfixed bugs which have already been fixed for 12 days now :-) If you don't like the hex id's, then Mercurial is probably the wrong SCM for you anyway :-) Also, I for one don't remember which bug has been fixed in which tagged release anyway. All I can say is if a prominent bug has been fixed or not (if I remember it at all), and if I have a hg version, I have to look it up anyway in the log to tell whether it has been fixed or not and when. Almost all scenarios of this sort are of the the kind "what version do you use?" .."XYZ".. "Uh, that's pretty ancient, try the newest"... "Thanks, works now". Also crew-stable is not a horror-show, as that is pulled and merged into crew and thus into main repo sooner or later anyway. Also, Matt pulls (and merges) crew-stable into stable anyway too (and vice versa), so I see not much point in trying to avoid that oh-so-hot crew-stable *if* you don't want to wait for that next "official" Mercurial release. Having policies is good, but slavishly following them when they are not appropriate is silly. But it seems I'm wasting my time here anyway. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Tortoisehg-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/tortoisehg-discuss
