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by durin42 14y ago
I work with both extensively, and still loathe git. note: I work on the guts of VCS for a living.
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by durin42 14y ago
Shiny! Have you considered writing some tests for that? Mercurial's testrunner and .t files makes it pretty easy.
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by durin42 14y ago
I feel like I have to respond to some of these, as the response is kind of a lot of out of date information. Here goes: forest is actually obsoleted by the built-in subrepo feature. bookmarks are always on now - the extension is now a no-op
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by durin42 14y ago
There are many problems with this. Among them that I have some iTunes purchases associated with an email account that hasn't existed in /years/. There's no way to rename an Apple account. This same problem exists on most sites that use emai
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by durin42 14y ago
I tried installing the existing binary from the market, but I'm not seeing it. Has anyone else been able to play with RedPhone?
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by durin42 14y ago
Did they have any engineering folks outside the bay area?
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by durin42 14y ago
Let's be clear: we're not killing Perian, we're just done actively developing it. For my part, I'll work to keep it functional as it breaks on versions of OS X I use, but I'm lagging by a full major version these days because I really onl
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by durin42 14y ago
> It will be very hard for Darcs (and Bazaar, Monotone, etc.) to get so much better than git that switching is worth it. People said this about Subversion not so long ago.
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by durin42 14y ago
Do you use anything like a trigram index (see rsc's wonderful posts about how Google Code Search worked, and https://code.google.com/p/codesearch/ for a Go implementation) to speed up the regex codepath?
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by durin42 14y ago
Can you cite any examples of this ever happening? I am curious now.
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by durin42 15y ago
As one who complained directly this being off-by-default to some python-dev folks, one small reason it's off-by-default in the bugfix releases is because it's likely to break people's tests if they use doctest. Pretty much everyone I've tal
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by durin42 15y ago
Let's say they use instant messenger services, so they have Pidgin installed. I'm pretty sure there have been critical bugfixes in Pidgin, and the old Hardy version of Pidgin was so flaky for me 2 years ago (back before my workplace had mov
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by durin42 15y ago
Again, an "html5" game with reliance on flash. At least this one plays without sound if you don't have a flash plugin, but what's stopping this (and seemingly everyone else) from using html5 for sound?
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by durin42 15y ago
I don't have the link handy, but IIRC we did some experiments with that for Mercurial and found that stat() in parallel didn't really help much until you were using NFS or similarly slow network-type latency filesystems.
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by durin42 15y ago
http://code.google.com/p/support/issues/detail?id=1829 You might want to start that issue. Helps express a desire for the feature.
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by durin42 15y ago
I don't know where you get the notion that Python is in any way deprecated. I'd hope to know, as both a customer of Python @ Google and a part maintainer of some core Python libraries there. It _is_ discouraged for large projects, but there
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by durin42 15y ago
Because cgit is a bunch of binaries that expect to call each other. That makes it harder to abstract out the storage layer, and we don't use vanilla repositories sitting on a filesystem. Things are backed by some other storage abstraction,
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by durin42 15y ago
You don't want kbfiles - you want to install hg 2.0 and just use the bigfiles extension included with the download. It's based on kbfiles, the kiln folks helped upstream it.
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by durin42 15y ago
Chicago - Google We're hiring at Google Chicago. It's a great office, and we've got a great group of engineers. Feel encouraged to email me if you want a resume put into the system - my email is in my HN profile. You don't have to move to M
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by durin42 15y ago
Already done (for extensions that ship with hg): % hg fetch hg: unknown command 'fetch' 'fetch' is provided by the following extension: fetch pull, update and merge in one command use "hg help extensions" for informat
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by durin42 15y ago
For one: Because many, many features have sharp edges I don't want exposed to newbies. 'git reset --hard HEAD^' for example. Another: anything that's in hg proper has really strict backwards compatibility promises. Extensions let us screw a
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by durin42 15y ago
You don't have to use mq ever. I don't really use it anymore. I still have it enabled for the 'strip' subcommand (so I can discard revisions if I really need to), but I don't even use that. Instead, it's all rebase and histedit, with a spri
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by durin42 15y ago
What in particular do you hate about Mercurial? I'm curious as a contributor to hg if there's anything in particular that might be fixable (obviously there are some sacred cows, but many things can be fixed just by turning on an extension).
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by durin42 15y ago
Mercurial and Git shipped at about the same time. It's not fair to say Git inspired Mercurial.
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by durin42 15y ago
There's a HUGE difference between copyright assignment (required by FSF!) and a license agreement (Google, Apache, Mozilla, many others). The former means you are giving away ownership to your IP, which is what you describe. The latter only
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by durin42 15y ago
I'm not quite sure. Chromium (the open-source end of Chrome) is very much a cathedral in the sense of product direction, but is developed in the open. I can't come up with something that has the opposite pairing though (it'd be kind of stra
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by durin42 15y ago
This just isn't true. I know for a fact JBQ has reviewed patches (and gotten relevant engineers to review things) that have made it into AOSP. The Android team does pre-push code review using Gerrit, and they often lack the personnel to rev
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by durin42 15y ago
I'll try my best to remember!
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by durin42 15y ago
I started tinkering with an implementation of revlog on the plane back from OSCON. If I get anywhere useful I'll post the sources somewhere.

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