Matt Mackall wrote:
http://selenic.com/mercurial/
April 19, 2005
I've spent the past couple weeks working on a completely new
proof-of-concept SCM. The goals:
- to initially be as simple (and thereby hackable) as possible
- to be as scalable as possible
- to be memory, disk, and bandwidth efficient
- to be able to do "clone/branch and pull/sync" style development
This sounds like an interesting tool, I want to look at it next week.
It's still very early on, but I think I'm doing surprisingly well. Now
that I've got something that actually does some interesting things if
you poke at it right, I figure it's time to throw it out there.
[...]
What remains to be done:
- a halfway-usable command line tool
- remote (network) repository support
- diff generation
- changelog entry editing
- various manual interventions for merge
- handle rename
- handle rollback
- all sorts of other error handling
- all sorts of cleanup, packaging, documentation, testing...
The first one and the last one are really important... if a tool is hard
to use, or poorly documented, people won't use it no matter how great it
is. Or they will use it just long enough to create or find something better.
I admit that some of my own toys have never seen the light of day
because I am unable to invest the time to handle those points.
--
-bill davidsen ([email protected])
"The secret to procrastination is to put things off until the
last possible moment - but no longer" -me
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