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SDL source repository has now been switched over to use Mercurial!
http://www.libsdl.org/hg.php If you don't use Mercurial and never want to, don't worry, you can still grab snapshots from the SDL website and send patches the way you always have. There are a number of reasons why this change was made, and here are a few: * It's much easier to iterate locally on changes before pushing them to the world, resulting in better code in the wild. * It's much easier to share changes with other people using Mercurial, which is great for the Google Summer of Code students. (e.g. hg export/import) * It's much faster to update and commit (or push and pull) * Mercurial has similar syntax to Subversion for simple operations Here is Ryan's quickstart on Mercurial: - The best quick-start tutorial I've read is Joel Spolsky's new hginit.com. You should read it. It's interesting and funny. I've read a lot of quick-start tutorials, and no other does it as well. - The important thing to know, as a subversion user, is to stop fearing branching. Mercurial works best when you have a bunch of little ad-hoc branches weaving around each other. - When committing new changes, keep the first sentence of the log comment short and on a line by itself. It'll be used for the summary. - More or less, most commands work like Subversion's, and there is a TortoiseHg to match TortoiseSvn, if that's you're thing. But once you start using things that Subversion can't do (bisect, record, shelve, rollback, queues, etc), you're going to find yourself annoyed when you have to work with a Subversion repository and can't use these extra features. In case you're curious, there's lots of discussion on the why's and wherefores on the SDL forums: http://forums.libsdl.org/viewtopic.php?t=6047 See ya! -- -Sam Lantinga, Founder and President, Galaxy Gameworks LLC _______________________________________________ SDL mailing list http://lists.libsdl.org/listinfo.cgi/sdl-libsdl.org |
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Loïc LAMBERT
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Hi all!
I think it is a great news! I used to convert some svn repositories (including SDL) with hgsvn... no need anymore :-) If you have not used hg or git, you should look at some videos of 'Linus Torvalds on git' (easy to find). Changing from CVS/SVN to hg/git is a bit disturbing at the beginning, but once you have tested it, it is really hard to go back! Loïc Le 12/04/2010 08:27, Sam Lantinga a écrit :
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Vittorio G.
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this is great news, i was wondering why there haven't been any update on the sources lately and now i understand why :)
i have a question about how the repository are now managed: with svn if you did a checkout on the trunk folder you'd get also the sources for sdl_image, net, mixer and ttf; right now you have to hg clone 5 times, is it correct? would it be possible to insert a meta-repository so that by cloning the root repository you could get also the sources of the other projects hosted? i guess that this would help people (like me) who like to read the changes via the web interface Vittorio On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 10:14 AM, Loïc LAMBERT wrote:
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Ryan C. Gordon
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Vittorio G. wrote:
We don't have that at the moment, but here are a few options in the meantime. There are RSS and Atom feeds for each project, if you want to use Google Reader or something else to notify you of changes... http://hg.libsdl.org/SDL/rss-log http://hg.libsdl.org/SDL_mixer/rss-log (etc) ...or you can look at the project summary page, sorted by latest change, which will tell you when a project has been updated, but not the specific updates... http://hg.libsdl.org/?sort=lastchange ...or you can just see the summary of a given project, which lists the latest changes... http://hg.libsdl.org/SDL/ ...or the "shortlog" which lists more changes on one page... http://hg.libsdl.org/SDL/shortlog ...or subscribe to the commits mailing list, which sends an email for each commit to any repository. I might hack up some PHP to do a summary view and RSS feed for all the projects combined, but I haven't, yet. --ryan. _______________________________________________ SDL mailing list http://lists.libsdl.org/listinfo.cgi/sdl-libsdl.org |
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Torsten Giebl
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Hello !
I have never used Mercurial, but with GIT, which i think is similar to it, when you clone a repository, you copy not only all latest versions, but all the changesets too. GIT has a way to only checkout the latest file versions, very much like SVN, but without all the changesets. If this is also possible with Mercurial, a hint on the SDL checkout page might be usefull, for people who have very limited bandwith, for example on Dial Ups or with mobile internet access. CU _______________________________________________ SDL mailing list http://lists.libsdl.org/listinfo.cgi/sdl-libsdl.org |
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Vittorio G.
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yes i saw them, and actually i think that the changelog and shortlog are cooler than svn's
however checking for 5 sites can be a little tedious... how about an rss aggregator that collects data from the five rss feeds in one single feed? Vittorio On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 6:31 PM, Ryan C. Gordon wrote:
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Here's one for you: http://www.rssmix.com/u/868840/rss.xml Laziness prevails for now, but I'll eventually write up some PHP so this information is provided on libsdl.org, both as HTML and RSS. --ryan. _______________________________________________ SDL mailing list http://lists.libsdl.org/listinfo.cgi/sdl-libsdl.org |
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