preliminary guide to Mercurial via workflows

[Arne Babenhauserheide]

Am Donnerstag 30 April 2009 20:55:51 schrieb Martin Geisler:
> Is mercurial-scm.org supposed to be made up of hand-crafted HTML files?

The basic content is written in html which gets included in django pages. 

So "mostly yes" :) 

But since the amount of markup for texts is quite minimal here, and the site 
is mostly intended to act as an easy to use portal into already existing 
content (no need to reinvent everything. The wiki is already great), that 
doesn't have a high impact. 

It is intended as a lean "come to Mercurial" page, which helps people to get 
started and find their way into the already existing material. 

One of the reesults of that is, that I'm not sure if the general workflow post 
(not the intro, but the site which contains the actual workflows) should go to 
mercurial-scm.org, because it's a site which will change with new extensions. 
It might be better suited for the wiki. That's one more reason why I avoid 
extensions in the guide. 

> You cannot really know that, it depends on the network configuration.
> Moving changesets by mail should be the important point, and adding
> protection is a secondary goal.

Does this sound better? 

"Often you won't have direct access to the repository of someone else, be it 
because he's behind a restrictive firewall, or because you live in different 
timezones. You might also want to keep your changes confidential and prefer 
internal email (if you want additional protection, you can also encrypt the 
mails, for example with GnuPG)."

> Well, I have never had to use them, but I also think they add a nice
> feature. But on the other hand, many people are no happy about them
> being permanent in the history.

I just added a note that they are permanent, so people can take an informed 
decision (and added a link to the more advanced worklows, so they can check 
for alternatives). 

> > Would you like to write it up as an article, so we can put it on
> > mercurial-scm.org as the Quick start?
>
> Yeah, I'll see if I can come up with something. But I don't know how
> quickly I'll do it...

That's no problem - I still have a general workflow article to finish, and 
dsop works on a short intro to extensions for the basic content. 

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