Promoting the use of Mercurial; was: Re: gnome dvcs survey results

[Arne Babenhauserheide]

Am Mittwoch 07 Januar 2009 19:53:19 schrieb Gabor Grothendieck:
> One further comment. I think the niche that Hg could dominate is Windows
> subversion users.  Subversion users already mostly use TortoiseSVN and
> would be more receptive to TortoiseHg than other offerings.  Also the other
> dvcs's are not really credible Windows products.  To capture this segment
> Hg likely needs to become a capable svn client in a transparent way
> allowing graceful switching to Hg and tansparent concurrent use of Hg and
> Svn.  I know there is already some functionality in this area but am not
> sure what remaining could be done.

Please give hgsubversion a try. 

As long as the svn repository structure uses the basic 

PROJECT
	trunk/
	branches/
	tags/

layout, it can be used as transparent svn bridge. 

-http://www.selenic.com/mercurial/wiki/index.cgi/HgSubversion

Best wishes, 
Arne
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