Am I shooting myself in the foot if I use Mercurial for Rails development?
I’m a Rails developer and I prefer Mercurial over Git. However, I know that the Rails community is very pro-Git. So my question is it possible that my choice of version control system would turn back some developers?
I am a git user confused by mercurial’s branching. How am I supposed to track small changes?
I’ve always used git before, but I want to contribute to python so now I have to learn mercurial and I find it very frustrating.
Searching in a repository
I’m very new to source control management and one thing puzzles me: is it possible to search through the whole repository for a string? For example I’m tracking one file, which has 100 commits and I would like to see all the version of the file which contain “xyz” inside.
Recommended methodology for working with shared libraries and Mercurial
I work in a small team of developers who all collaborate on several Zend PHP projects. We are using Mercurial with a collection of upstream repositories, as well as Jenkins for centralized testing and health reports. We want to implement a shared library of common classes, but are struggling with finding a workflow that works well with our current environment.
Any reasons not to use multiple version control systems?
I’m working on a project which uses GIT as the main version control system for trunk, the official branches and most sub-projects/unofficial branches. As such, I want to make my own branch use GIT to allow the rest of the community to access my branch using the system they know.
Is it a good idea to install Mercurial on your server and hg pull to deploy?
I’ve just started at a new job this past month and looks like they have NO source control for their code. They are relying on the backups their hosting provider takes for them.
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How to organise projects with dependencies on BitBucket?
Both Mercurial and BitBucket make one fundamental assumption: 1 repo = 1 project.
Examples of non open source projects on Bitbucket or Github
Need examples to show management that these are used for source control and effectively backup of projects.
Why not commit unresolved changes?
In a traditional VCS, I can understand why you would not commit unresolved files because you could break the build. However, I don’t understand why you shouldn’t commit unresolved files in a DVCS (some of them will actually prevent you from committing the files).