two factors for switching to Mercurial

dvd at newfoundmarket.com dvd at newfoundmarket.com
Mon Jun 16 02:19:25 CDT 2008


Hello:

I have been testing Mercurial and it is a great software 
that has advantages over other packages I have used.
The only two factors that would make hesitant to completely
switch to Mercurial are

1.  lack of support for empty directory. I saw workarounds
such as creating hidden files. But these might not work well
when unpredictable number/depth of empty directories are required
for other applications to function correctly.

Can it be eventually enhanced to support empty directory by
using some command switch? such as  hg --include-empty
or it can not be done due to design requirement ?

2.  The repository has to be local. i.e.  ".hg" must
be in the same parent directory.  It would help a lot sometimes
if the content under ".hg" could be specified to be located a on a different host  or directory.  something like

hg init --repolink=ssh://remote/actualRepo
under the local ".hg" would only contain necessary info for hg
to locate the remote repo info (kin of like symbolic link)
for its operation.  

Can it be done or is there restriction by design requirement?

I feel mercurial would be perfect (at least for me) if the above two
features can be implemented. 

Thanks
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://selenic.com/pipermail/mercurial/attachments/20080616/73ee5d37/attachment.htm 


More information about the Mercurial mailing list