On 2011-02-27 01:50, Barry Warsaw wrote:
On Feb 26, 2011, at 11:45 PM, Adrian Buehlmann wrote:
You'd have to take this up with Mercurial's BDFL Matt. He is a strong advocate for teaching users to learn edit their .hg/hgrc files.
Well, I guess it's doubtful I'd change his mind then. :)
Yep.
Regarding Bazaar: FWIW, I periodically retried the speed of 'bzr check' - and always gave up again looking at bzr due to the horrible slowness of that command. If I have to use a DVCS I want to be able to check the integrity of my clones in reasonable time. I do it with a cron job on our internal server here and I expect it to have finished checking all our repos when I get to my desk in the morning and look into my email inbox, reading the daily email with the result of the verify runs.
After all, we do have everything secured with hashes, so we can use them, don't we?
Do you know how thorough 'bzr check' is? I don't, but then I've never used it or felt the need to. ;)
That's quite amazing. If I talk with people about that, it often turns out that they don't check the integrity of their repos. Well, hg verify *is* through and fast enough. That's good enough for me. And being slow is not sufficient to earn my trust. FWIW, be aware that Mercurial does not do integrity checks on normal operations, so chances are you will be able to use a repo that fails verify for quite a while -- without even noticing it. For example you can remove *some* file X inside .hg/store/data and continue to add history to that repo without any sign of errors, as long as the file X isn't used during the operations you do.