Slime project considering Mercurial

[John D. Mitchell]

On Fri, Mar 7, 2008 at 3:46 AM, Paul Franz <theandromedan at gmail.com> wrote:
[...]
>  > One of the easy ways to create *many* local clones in India is to create
>  > a hierarchy of `workspaces'.  One can install a local `gate' in India,
>  > and use the gate only for pulling changes from the official tree.  The
>  > local India developers can clone the local gate instead of the remote
>  > `master' tree.
>  >
>  So the local India developers would pull from the local gate repository

Yes.

And from each other, if they please.  I.e., remember that Hg is a
distributed SCM. :-)


>  but push to the one in the US, correct?

That's up to you and how your development process works.

For example, they could have a local *outgoing* repository. Or, you
might treat the remote folks as non-committers and have them send
their patches to a committer.

For outsourcing-ish relationships, I'd have a them have a shared,
local, incoming repository (mostly likely on a per-project basis) that
they have periodically pull from a designated corporate-side repo;
along with a shared, local, outgoing repo (most likely on a
per-project basis) that they push their proposed changes to.  On the
corporate-side, I'd then have the internal technical team responsible
for e.g., each project, have a repository that they pull the changes
from the outsourced group's outgoing repo (and then vet the changes,
run tests, etc. before integrating that with the corporate repos.

Hope this helps,
John