Mercurial Support.

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Steve Gill
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Mercurial Support.

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My contribution to the wish list is that I would like to see Mercurial added as a version control option. :)

Thanks.

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Steve
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Re: Mercurial Support.

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Hi Steve,

Thanks for posting this. Mercurial is definitely interesting -- for systems like Help+Manual you could say it is Git without the pain, and its limitations are not really things that would be a problem for HM. The real problems are demand and acceptance: Adding support for a version control system is a lot (really, a LOT) of work, so adding support for Mercurial wouldn't be a viable proposition if only a handful of customers actually use it. Git would be more of a pain, but demand for it is very high; we get requests for it all the time. Git has a much, much larger user base and supporting it would also open up the possibility of putting Help+Manual projects on GitHub.

So we're definitely looking into Mercurial, but I can't at the moment promise what will or won't come of it... :?
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Re: Mercurial Support vs Github

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Tim Green wrote:possibility of putting Help+Manual projects on GitHub
The ability to share sample projects efficiently via github pages could be very good for your reputation. But supporting git/github would require extra time and resources, and it might be necessary to offer a free version – e.g. for 10 topics or fewer – so that interested parties could play with the samples. To prevent the free edition from cannibalizing sales of H&M licences (e.g. for use by reviewers in large projects) might require technical measures that would impact normal use.

It's not an entirely straightforward choice. With pricing the devil is always in the details, so good luck with that...
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Re: Mercurial Support.

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Tim Green wrote:So we're definitely looking into Mercurial, but I can't at the moment promise what will or won't come of it... :?
Thanks Tim. I'll continue to version control my H&M projects with Mercurial manually.

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Steve
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Re: Mercurial Support.

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Tim Green wrote:Git would be more of a pain, but demand for it is very high; we get requests for it all the time. Git has a much, much larger user base and ...
That's definitely right. Please try to realize the Git support with a high priority! A lot of people are wainting for this.

BTW: Is it really that pain? If I'm right the Subversion support is based on TortoiseSVN. There's also a TortoiseGIT available which I guess has a similiar interface.
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Steffen Sledz wrote:BTW: Is it really that pain? If I'm right the Subversion support is based on TortoiseSVN. There's also a TortoiseGIT available which I guess has a similiar interface.
It's not quite that simple, and we've learned to be cautious about depending on Tortoise. They recently shuffled the libraries in their DLLs and removed a DLL we depended on without warning or documentation, which caused a lot of problems for the SVN support. There's a workaround available, but it involves installing the Collabnet command line client for 32 bit. :?
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