Comments on The official Google Code blog: Mercurial support for Project Hosting on Google Code

Great possibility. Thaks

2010-02-09T00:20:12.182-08:00

Great possibility. Thaks

The thing is, if you are dealing with distributed ...

2009-12-04T05:08:06.960-08:00

The thing is, if you are dealing with distributed version control you don't need the google code really or any central source code repository. In fact, the dvcs would be really powerful if somebody would come up with a coder's social network with a strong source code managing linking.
You can choose any free web host to distribute your own clone from a certain code repository with your own changes without actually separating from other's code. So it's a good thing to have a dvcs system on the google code, but in the terms of distributed system you need a new development discipline to using it as an actual distributed code management which is exactly the opposite that the sf.net, github or the gc itself can offer.

On git: mercurial/hg, bazaar were the first widely available distributed version control systems and as such they have a little "concept" kinda smell: VCSs mustn't created on a scripted level since the code management operations need to be as fast as possible in order to encourage the developers to use them as frequent as possible. Now python is a good language and system but it fail at this point: it is interpreted (even with the "precompilation" not fast enough) so any system built on the top of it consequently slow. Now it is good enough for server side but if you're dealing with it regular basis on your system (e.g. tortoisehg) you'll experience a terrible overhead. The CPU power doesn't mean too much since the real time parsing cannot be coupled with the number of cores and one could expect exponentially growing parsing time for more and more complex codes. In these matters git performs better because the underlying system is built on native tools and the shell script tools are just for the user interface. That's a sort of advantage what you can not ignore. git is much younger than hg or bazaar and it just actually got in to the shape to say: this is a system that I can use in my usual tasks. Because of that the lack of convenient tools will go soon away and therefore it could grow to a reference distributed file system. I haven't got this feeling using mercurial even it implements a very similar functionality.

Oh, sweet. This might actually make GC usable!

2009-10-14T13:11:24.134-07:00

Oh, sweet. This might actually make GC usable!

Very interesting site. Hope it will always be aliv...

2009-10-08T02:59:54.429-07:00

Very interesting site. Hope it will always be alive!

Wow, it's really now that is indeed some prett...

2009-10-02T04:15:55.300-07:00

Wow, it's really now that is indeed some pretty cool stuff!

This is great news, time to start learning hg.

2009-08-11T14:33:22.328-07:00

This is great news, time to start learning hg.

It's great that Mercurial is now supported. ...

2009-06-09T12:17:27.112-07:00

It's great that Mercurial is now supported. However, the Google Code workflow is still pretty oriented towards centralized version control (branches and code reviews).

I hope there will be support similar to Launchpad for distributed version control.

Cool stuff. Does anybody know when HG support is g...

2009-06-07T09:37:01.603-07:00

Cool stuff. Does anybody know when HG support is going public?

can't wait for mercurial support to get out of bet...

2009-05-11T15:23:00.000-07:00

can't wait for mercurial support to get out of beta!

If you are not going to support git then I'll move...

2009-05-05T13:33:00.000-07:00

If you are not going to support git then I'll move my projects out of google code.See if they care!

2009-05-05T12:05:00.000-07:00

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Thanks for Mercurial support!

2009-05-04T03:12:00.000-07:00

Thanks for Mercurial support!

> If you are not going to support git then I...

2009-04-29T17:25:00.000-07:00

> If you are not going to support git then I'll move my projects out of google code.

go ahead.

If you are not going to support git then I'll move...

2009-04-29T14:42:00.000-07:00

If you are not going to support git then I'll move my projects out of google code.

Is there any chance that Mercurial on Bigtable wil...

2009-04-29T14:02:00.000-07:00

Is there any chance that Mercurial on Bigtable will be usable by the AppEngine people? It would be really nice to clone a repo to AppEngine for internal use (like versioning a wiki, etc.)

Project Kenai from Sun has had hg and Subversion s...

2009-04-27T17:52:00.000-07:00

Project Kenai from Sun has had hg and Subversion support since September 2008, and also now offers Git support.

Great news. Does that mean google projects are gon...

2009-04-27T14:02:00.000-07:00

Great news. Does that mean google projects are gonna use more HG and less SVN from now on?

Great! :) I like Mercurial and projectgroups at my...

2009-04-27T09:54:00.000-07:00

Great! :) I like Mercurial and projectgroups at my school mostly use Google Code because there's nothing the academy provides. Now we can use Mercurial in Google Code so I'm happy. :)

Anyone working on the Linux kernel, like the Andro...

2009-04-27T06:20:00.000-07:00

Anyone working on the Linux kernel, like the Android project, will naturally use git. Mercurial is a wonderful system. You hg haters can go sulk with the Ruby AppEngine programmers.

I want Bazaar!

2009-04-27T06:12:00.000-07:00

I want Bazaar!

I suggest anyone who says there is no great Window...

2009-04-26T23:13:00.000-07:00

I suggest anyone who says there is no great Windows GUI for GIT checks out Git Extensions. It even has a plugin for Visual Studio 2005 and 2008. I use it daily and works great.

Nice to see the move to DVCS support but git shoul...

2009-04-26T05:24:00.000-07:00

Nice to see the move to DVCS support but git should really be supported. I suppose that's a matter of time...

Yaaaaaaaay! And it's my favorite DVCS too!

2009-04-26T01:39:00.000-07:00

Yaaaaaaaay! And it's my favorite DVCS too!

Way to go Google! Someone finally got it right.

2009-04-25T19:37:00.000-07:00

Way to go Google! Someone finally got it right.

That is really great, and the choice show why Hg &...

2009-04-25T17:31:00.000-07:00

That is really great, and the choice show why Hg > git.

Thanks