Tag: Mercurial
An Unplanned Reminder About the Importance of Backups
December 17, 2010
Two hours into a board meeting my Mercurial repository went belly up. It took another hour before I could leave and start to do some damage control. My initial recovery attempt didn’t go very well. The debugging tools for Mercurial allowed me to resolve initial case-folding error, only to have a second immediately pop up. [...]
Outgrowing Mercurial
October 31, 2010
While working at Raka Creative, we used Subversion as our centralized version control system. When I left to work at CELEST, I went from being part of a team of developers to being the sole developer. Using Subversion had opened my eyes to the importance of version control, but it was clear a centralized version [...]