[opensource-dev] Snowglobe Mecurial Repository

[Carlo Wood]

Actually, I think I understand why.

LL is using hg internally, and has been for a while.
They just pushed things out as svn for public access, but that process
caused all the meta data to be lost and had to be done manually, and
therefore only sometimes in big large chunks.

It is for the benefit of snowglobe that commits to the internal
repository are available with meta data and as the original change sets,
once they are merged with the public repository.

With hg this is possible: just push the changeset to the "public
hg repository", but only if that public repository run hg itself.

On top of that, merging branches is much easier (according to
http://hginit.com/00.html), that holds for merging changes from internal
into snowglobe but also for TPV's assuming they switch to hg as well.
It should become much easier for us and for others using hg to merge
'upstream' changes with the ever growning set of local patches and
extensions.

-- 
Carlo Wood <carlo at alinoe.com>