Switching to Mercurial

02 Nov 2009

This is probably only of interest to those who use the PN source code, if you don’t then feel free to move right along!

Now that Google Code supports Mercurial for source control I’m considering whether to move PN to this. Mercurial provides a much better model for managing Open Source project source control as it allows each user to maintain a local set of changes with full change history without needing project approval for commits. Any changes that the project is interested in taking can then be pulled into the main project tree.

Unless there are any major objections to the move I’ll start working on the import soon. The source at it’s final subversion revision will remain available in subversion indefinitely, but new commits will only go to the mercurial repository.

More on Mercurial:

• Mercurial Homepage

• Mercurial on Wikipedia

All feedback welcome, here or in the forums.