Simon Willison’s Weblog

Hg Init. Joel Spolsky’s guide to Mercurial. If you’re still using a non-distributed version control system like Subversion, this is a great introduction to the new world order.

# 25th February 2010, 10:31 am / joel-spolsky, distributedvcs, mercurial, subversion

Announcing Heechee. “Heechee is a transparent mercurial-as-subversion gateway”—you can use it to allow subversion clients to check out a mercurial repository, meaning svn:externals can work against projects hosted by mercurial. It’s very young code but I’ve already seen it out-perform regular subversion for checkout speed.

# 11th September 2009, 2:16 am / subversion, heechee, andrew-godwin, mercurial

Tailor. “Tailor is a tool to migrate or replicate changesets between ArX, Bazaar, Bazaar-NG, CVS, Codeville, Darcs, Git, Mercurial, Monotone, Subversion and Tla repositories.”—written in Python.

# 24th June 2008, 9:59 am / python, tailor, bazaar, cvs, codeville, dvcs, darcs, git, mercurial, monotone, subversion, tla, version-control

VCS Migration: The Hare and the Tortoise. Bazaar and Mercurial compared from the point of view of importing 1 million diffs from Mozilla CVS. Bazaar’s import is more robust but will take more than a month to complete.

# 26th January 2007, 11:44 pm / bazaar, mercurial, version-control, mozilla