My experiences with Mercurial

[Giorgos Keramidas]

On 2007-06-17 16:46, Milen Dzhumerov <gamehack at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
> I just wanted to describe my experiences with Mercurial and let you
> know why we're going to be using subversion for now. The main reasons
> for considering Mercurial were:
>
> 1. Distributed model
> 2. Works on Windows & Unix
> 3. It's fast
>
> We decided that there was no point _for us_ to deploy Mercurial in a
> centralised fashion - we would then just keep on using subversion. As
> the source which we're tracking is closed, we cannot afford not to
> encrypt the traffic. So really what we need is a simple & secure way
> for the users (developers in this case) to share their changesets.
> "hg serve" seems to fit the definition of simple but not secure.

"hg serve" is only but _one_ of the ways Mercurial supports for sharing
changesets though.

  * You can tunnel "hg serve" through SSH.

  * You can tunnel "hg push" through SSH.

  * You can email bundle files encrypted with PGP.

  * You can set up a single HTTPS-based Apache and have the
    developers "hg push" their changes in one of the multiple
    in-progress repositories hosted there.