A Generic Cloud Repository as a Mercurial Repository

[Martin Geisler]

Pietro Moras <studio-pm at hotmail.com> writes:

>> Jungle Disk as a remote repository for Mercurial ...
>
>       This
> is precisely the kind of VCS collaborative web-configuration I,
> perhaps naively, considered as desirable. And, at least in this
> notable case, there it is.
>
> Ever heard of any other such encouraging experiences? Thanks.

It is clear that you can synchronize a Mercurial repository using
DropBox, Jungle Disk, a network filesystem, rsync, or whatever other
preferred mechanism you might have for moving bits and bytes from one
computer to another.

However, doing so is often *dangerous* (you can corrupt a repository if
you edit it from two computers at the same time) and goes against the
*basic design* of distributed version control systems. DVCS rely on the
idea that you bring the source code to you (download it only your
machine) so gain quick access to the history and (importantly) work in
isolation and thereby create your own branch.

-- 
Martin Geisler

http://careers.stackoverflow.com/mg
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