Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2010 11:41:39 +0100 From: [email protected]
BTW, now I looked, they do actually advertise Git, too. Is that a paid service?
Git, SVN and Mercurial are free for small projects up to 2 GB.
My suggestion came partly from my selfish interest, although I do think that having a DVCS repository might provide bigger incentive for possible contributors. As well as ease the development.
Yeah, speaking of selfish interest, the main selling point for a distributed version control system is of course that it may make contributing code easier. ("Contributors are the lifeblood of Vimpulse." -- rev. 30 commit message) The main problem with distributed version control as of now is there's too many contenders. Git? Mercurial? Bazaar? Darcs? Monotone? At least everyone's familiar with SVN, and TortoiseSVN is pretty mature (while TortoiseHg has some rough edges by comparison). Git may be confusing to a Mercurial user, and vice versa ... However, I am not saying I am opposed to distributed version control: Mercurial gives everyone a local repository "for free" with which they can do as they like, before sharing their efforts with export (diffs) or push. I run a local SVN server on my machine solely for the purpose of mimicking this, actually.
I don't think you would lose revision history, though, both Git and Mercurial can import SVN repositories AFAIK.
I am the maintainer of viper-in-more-modes.el, so let's do some preliminary tests. Assembla space: http://www.assembla.com/wiki/show/viper-in-more-modes I added Mercurial to the space and ran hg convert http://svn6.assembla.com/svn/viper-in-more-modes hg update to create a local Mercurial repository from SVN. Then, using TortoiseHg's Synchronize screen, I pushed that repository to the official one, below: http://hg.assembla.com/viper-in-more-modes There were some access restrictions initially, but I think they are sorted out now. Would you mind testing the Mercurial repository? Can you tell me if the conversion was successful? Vegard _________________________________________________________________ Nye Windows 7: PCen som passer for deg. Finn ut mer. http://windows.microsoft.com/shop