Continuing my fascination with all things mercurial, I’ve converted over a few of my googlecode projects (including groovyblogs and gravl). Google code has supported mercurial for a while, but it was initially piloted on just a few projects. These days the floodgates are open Google provides you with a Step-by-step guide on converting your project from Subversion to Mercurial. In the best case scenario, just do a “hg convert http://projectname.googlecode.com/svn hg-version-of-my-projectname” and you’re in business. [...]

I’ve been learning Mercurial over the past two weeks and I’m really loving it. I’ve used git before, and had a bunch of issues with merges (my fault, not git’s – but troublesome none the less). I thought I’d have a good look at Mercurial to see what it offered. I’ve got to say the learning curve with Mercurial has been awesome. I bought a copy of the book, which has helped with the headshift [...]