mercuria destroys everyone's work

Pierre-Yves David pierre-yves.david at ens-lyon.org
Sun Jan 17 04:28:25 UTC 2016



On 01/13/2016 11:35 PM, FLORENT Philippe wrote:
> After a few months of usage, we thought we tamed the beast
>
> We thought installing our reps on a windows share had solved many issues
>
> Well, no we still loose code and hours of work
>
> countless hours repairing the new code that mercurial discarded in
> favour of older code without asking

This sound like a merge-config // user manipulation error issue.
Can you provide us with more details ?

> Countless hours repairing/recreating our repositories when they just
> crash for no reason, us unable to push our new commits

"they just crash for no reason" is fairly vague. Can you be more 
specific here ?

> We did not change the way we work with it, and after a month of
> “””correct””” behavior, the whole thing once again get completely messed up

Same here, what was your actual issue ?

> I officialy renounce, this package is an unstable and clearly not suited
> for a prod environement

Mercurial is used in production by various large company (eg: Facebook, 
Mozilla, Unity) without the trouble you seems to encounter.

Cheers,

-- 
Pierre-Yves David



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