preliminary guide to Mercurial via workflows

[Arne Babenhauserheide]

Am Montag 04 Mai 2009 20:36:00 schrieb David I.:
> I don't think we can assume in general that a central server with SSH
> access is available. In my company, we have a mix of Windows and UNIX
> machines so it is easy for us. If another company is Windows-only,
> setting up SSH access will be a project in itself...

Since I'ms till stuying, I don't know what company developers have available 
in general: Do you know what the major different setups are? 

We could offer a set of workflows coined for corporate developers, including 
process requirements and existing infrastructure. 

> > I think the whole guide should also be rewritten fro TortoiseHG, so

> I agree. I want to transition to using HG in our group, and I really
> wanted to do some workflow cheatsheets for command-line, TortoiseHG, and
> Eclipse with Mercurial plugin. Since you are doing this stuff on basic
> workflows, maybe I can help contribute the TortoiseHG and Eclipse
> screenshots. To be complete, we should probably have Netbeans
> screenshots too. Doing the documentation helps me to learn Mercurial. In
> addition, I will probably use Eclipse Mercurial for day-to-day
> operations, but our scripted build proceedures will only work with the
> command line interface, so I need to know how to use both interfaces.
>
> It might be helpful to scan the Bazaar workflow documentation and see if
> there are any common ideas to borrow: http://bazaar-vcs.org/Workflows.

It looks good, though a bit too rough in the beginning for my taste. As soon 
as they get to centralized, it looks better (more detailed -> showing the 
actual commands). 

And I just saw a point there which I missed: "Package release"

Every workflow should have a section about how to release - or we should have 
a seperate main section only about doing releases. 

Mercurial offers many advantages there, after all - including shipping 
releases via a simple stable repository :)

> Is your master copy published in a wiki or a repository somewhere?

Jupp: 
-> website: http://bitbucket.org/segv/hg-website/  
    I write my drafts under "text/"
-> notes: http://bitbucket.org/segv/hg-website/wiki/

Best wishes, 
Arne

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