Promoting the use of Mercurial; was: Re: gnome dvcs survey results

[Gabor Grothendieck]

Thanks for pointing this out.

On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 4:15 PM, Arne Babenhauserheide <arne_bab at web.de> wrote:
> Am Mittwoch 07 Januar 2009 19:53:19 schrieb Gabor Grothendieck:
>> One further comment. I think the niche that Hg could dominate is Windows
>> subversion users.  Subversion users already mostly use TortoiseSVN and
>> would be more receptive to TortoiseHg than other offerings.  Also the other
>> dvcs's are not really credible Windows products.  To capture this segment
>> Hg likely needs to become a capable svn client in a transparent way
>> allowing graceful switching to Hg and tansparent concurrent use of Hg and
>> Svn.  I know there is already some functionality in this area but am not
>> sure what remaining could be done.
>
> Please give hgsubversion a try.
>
> As long as the svn repository structure uses the basic
>
> PROJECT
>        trunk/
>        branches/
>        tags/
>
> layout, it can be used as transparent svn bridge.
>
> -http://www.selenic.com/mercurial/wiki/index.cgi/HgSubversion
>
> Best wishes,
> Arne
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