A Mercurial experiment

After talking with one of the other contributors for the CruiseControl.Net project, we have decided to try an experiment. Currently CruiseControl.Net is stored in a Subversion version control system (VCS) – which means it has a central repository for all the code.

Instead we have been looking at Mercurial, which is an open source Distributed VCS (DVCS). This means everybody has a VCS running on their own machine, with an instance for the main source. Rather than hassle the project owner to get a new Subversion branch added for the CCTray replacement prototype we thought we’d try Mercurial instead.

So I’ve set up an instance at FreeHg.org – http://freehg.org/u/csut017/leo/. This has the latest copy of all the source code for the CCTray replacement.

I’ll update the code as I add more over time, and then we’ll see how the experiment goes