Re: mcl.googlecode.com opens for business

On Sep 17, 2009, at 8:04 AM, Alexander Repenning wrote:
> thanks for setting this up. I am a bit confused, however. Why did you
> go with Mercurial? See previous argument about de-cohesification.

The real choice is between using centralized version control vs  
distributed revision control. I think the latter is a better fit for  
our project, facilitating the merging of private branches. See:

http://code.google.com/p/support/wiki/ChoosingAVersionControlSystem
http://people.canonical.com/~ianc/papers/dvcs-why-and-how.xhtml
http://people.cs.ubc.ca/~bsd/papers/chase-2009-dealwis.pdf

As developers we benefit from being familiar with both the  
centralized and decentralized approach. Each has their own  
affordances for collaborative development.

GoogleCode has picked Mercurial as the available decentralized  
revision control system. Here is a page to get started using  
Mercurial for the MCL project:

http://code.google.com/p/mcl/wiki/MercurialSetup

-- Terje Norderhaug

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