Just Programmer

Today I’m starting a small series of articles about setting up a version control system and a project management tool on a shared host.

I can’t guarantee that the following steps will work with every webhost. If you have a VPS or a dedicated server you’re fine since you can do whatever you want. If not, Webfaction is offering a very powerful shared hosting or if you want to enjoy a very good shared hosting for a small the price an plenty of disk space, you can turn to Dreamhost.

Hi everyone !

I hope you had a wonderful Christmas and a great New Year Eve with plenty of Champagne, petits fours and such delicacies.
I had a great holiday season, and I’m ready to move on new height this year. I feel refreshed and motivated.

And to start the year with a great news, Mercurial 1.1.2 is out. Please read more about it here.
This release is a bugs fix one.

Time to roll out,

Richard Lopes

Just a quick post, first to wishes you all a Merry Christmas !
And to talk a bit about Mercurial.

Mercurial 1.1.1 has just been released. A few bugs have been fixed and some more goodness added. This tool is getting better and better. I think 2009 will be the Mercurial year ! Go here to download the latest version and read the release notes here.

For those like me that used and use SourceForge, GoogleCode or CodePlex, since we moved to the new generation of source control, we have been looking for alternatives to these services until they too support Mercurial.

For Git users there is the very well known Github where many great open source projects are stored. GitHub was first and filled a void with an adequate solution. But we don’t hear that much about Mercurial equivalents.

Since I am using Mercurial as my new version control and doing most of my work on Mac, I am missing something like TortoiseSVN I had while working on Windows with Subversion.

Fortunately for Windows users there is a TortoiseHG bringing Mercurial support in the shell. Unfortunately for Mac users there no equivalent. The only alternative I just found is MacMercurial from James Walker. The good about it is that you get a GUI to perform common Mercurial commands, a good alternative for example if your IDE doesn’t support Mercurial very well. However this is not as beautiful as Tortoise: right click integration would be great.

Support for the new version control stars like Git, Bazaar and Mercurial is not yet mature, but we should quickly have the same good integration we had with Subversion and CVS.

Richard Lopes