RE: Version Control Repository on a “Cloud”

Pietro Moras studio-pm at hotmail.com
Mon Nov 11 06:18:27 CST 2013


> From: simon at simonking.org.uk> Date: Mon, 11 Nov 2013 11:03:38 +0000> Subject: Re: Version Control Repository on a “Cloud”> To: studio-pm at hotmail.com> CC: mercurial at selenic.com> > On Mon, Nov 11, 2013 at 8:02 AM, Pietro Moras <studio-pm at hotmail.com> wrote:> > Thinking over again about the subject of a web Mercurial repository, I> > realized that the very, basic question is another.> >> > ?) How can it be that a Project under Version Control, when on the web,> > requires a special, dedicated repository, instead of a bit of normal room> > into a usual Cloud directory?> > It sounds too peculiar to be true, and, if true, it's for sure a tremendous> > obstacle hindering any really wide and generalized acceptance of such tool.> >> > Your thoughts? Thanks!> >> > - P.M.> > Hi Pietro,> > What's your definition of a "usual Cloud directory"? What is the API> for creating files in it? Does it run over HTTP, FTP, SMB, NFS etc.?> Does it support authentication, permissions, multiple users, SSL? Does> it support symlinks and hard links?> > Mercurial does support read-only operations against a "dumb" web> server (http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/StaticHTTP), but it is very> slow because mercurial has to request each file individually. And it> can't push to it, because there is no standard way of writing to files> on a remote web server.> > Simon  Hi Simon, >   What's your definition of a "usual Cloud directory"?   I'd better answer with an example, see:  “Box.net [Team Workspaces]”.
But the real point is another. For what I've seen so far (I've planned a Mercurial thorough exploration next year) only specialized providers can host a Mercurial Repository (the same with all other VCS' I know).Well, why such a strict condition? I'd expect that if there is a storage where I can save a Project of whatever nature (provided it can be stored as a file) the same Project could also be there Version Controlled. Why not? Only this way, I presume, Version Control could become really a nice and handy common policy. Couldn't it? I'd welcome your thoughts. Thanks. - P.M. 		 	   		  
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