Mercurial popularity is stagnant
till plewe
till.plewe at gmail.com
Tue Aug 19 17:56:23 UTC 2014
>> Is it a decision made by developers or managers? As far as I can tell
>> there is nothing there which would tempt me to switch but it may look
>> different on the managerial level. Are there any killer features which
>> appeal to developers?
>>
>> - Till
>
> The decision has been made by developers. Our workflow requires that
> discrete pieces of work (bug fixes, new features etc.) happen outside
> of the main code line, all code must be reviewed before being merged
> into the main line, review comments must be stored permanently so that
> we can refer back to them in the future, and so on. "hgweb and an ssh
> account" don't provide that, so we'd need some other system anyway. We
> investigated Review Board, RhodeCode and a couple of others, but none
> of them would support our workflow as well as Stash does.
>
> Simon
Thanks.
We would probably use our own scripts for demanding workflows,
modifying the scripts and the workflow until we are sure that we have
gotten it right. If Stash really does everything you need and will
continue to do so then you are lucky. I have never found a perfect fit
which could be easily adapted to changing requirements.
- Till
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