RE: [Axiom-developer] GIT

[Bill Page]

On October 24, 2006 2:53 PM Jay Belanger wrote:
> 
> "Bill Page" <address@hidden> writes:
> ...
> >> but svn had stopped working for me, and git finally gave me
> >> a working silver branch of Axiom, and quickly, too.
> >>
> >
> > What was your problem svn? Did you try the Google Code mirror?
> 
> When I tried to check out from axiom-developer, I kept getting
> errors.

Me too, although usually after restarting the process 5 or 6 times
I could get the whole thing. :-( Not very satisfactory, I agree.

> I could check out from google, but it was an older version that
> had build problems.

???

To the best of my ability to make this true, the contents of
the SVN repository on Google is identical the the SourceForge
repository. A batch job runs 'svk sync' from SourceForge to Google
every night. Please let me know if you suspect any differences
between these two repositories.

> 
> > Apparently Mercurial was developed partly in response to
> > criticism of git by another group of developers working the
> > linux kernel.
> 
> I guess that git and mercurial are supposed to play nice together.
>

Yes. The user interface is nearly the same. Mercurial uses a
radically different way of storing revisions and generating
versions which is claimed to be faster. After a quick look at
this to me it seems rather similar to what darcs does -
manipulating and composing patches rather than always creating
intermediate versions.
 
> > After installing mercurial do this:
> >

hg clone
http://page.axiom-developer.org/repo/hgwebdir.cgi/axiom/build-improvements

> 
> Thanks.
> 

I think you will find install mercurial surprisingly easy. Let me
know how this turns out.

Regards,
Bill Page.