Mercurial Project

Google TechTalks
June 19, 2006

Bryan O'Sullivan is a Senior Principal Engineer at QLogic, Inc, where he works on HPC clustering and compiler technologies. He likes to write software tools that help other engineers, and to build interesting distributed systems. He is an enthusiastic rock climber of sadly limited facility.

ABSTRACT
Mercurial is a free distributed revision control system. It focuses on conceptual simplicity, robustness, and high performance. Well-known open source projects that use Mercurial include OpenSolaris, Xen, and One Laptop Per Child.This talk presents some of the advantages of using Mercurial to manage large, fast-moving projects.

We give a brief overview of the...

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[diecastbeatdown]

i love hg.

[hasenj]

Unfortunately this is a bit boring (compared to Linus' talk)

[chicos25]

maybe a bit boring, but this is an actual tech talk ;-) this guy makes relatively long introduction, but then explains in detail how hg works, i like it.

[aaronnewtonful]

This is a bit rambly, but interesting. I'd suggest you start watching from 6:50

[ridespirals]

@hasenj I agree that it might be a little more boring, but I actually found this more generally informative, and personally I think Linus is pretty irritating so this was much more watchable. Plus, I love hg :)

[mytube232]

I actually used SVN before Mercurial. I didn't even come to consider using any distributed version control until I started contributing on some Google project. It was then I was told I should make a clone of their repository and work on it.

I must say, it was all very confusing for a guy coming from SVN. Branching is a nightmare in CVS. Anyway, at the end my experience with Mercurial was so pleasant I started using it for all my projects and I strongly suggest my friends to do the same.

[amagilly]

"collaborating with yourself as your clue evolves over time" at 25:55

[scuzzz123]

this rox

[hamzahmohammed7787]

wtf

[yaki6ikliGS]

o yes wery good shose for futbal

[herbert9999]

i tried it and mercurial is cool