Version Control Repository on a “Cloud”

[Lester Caine]

Matt Mackall wrote:
> On Mon, 2013-11-11 at 08:02 +0000, Pietro Moras 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?
> There's a very simple answer: this is a volunteer project and in eight
> years none of our many thousands of users has cared enough about this
> problem to volunteer the code.
>
> (That's probably because they realize that it would be too slow to be
> practical for all but the smallest projects, and thus not worth the
> effort.)

That ... and why not just use the free options such as bitbucket or if you must 
github ... what does 'the cloud' give you that the services already provide?

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Lester Caine - G8HFL
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