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Re: [Monotone-devel] Calling the shell from a hook
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Brian May |
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Re: [Monotone-devel] Calling the shell from a hook |
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Sat, 18 Nov 2006 13:01:31 +1100 |
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>>>>> "William" == William Uther <address@hidden> writes:
William> but that just prints the password on stdout before
William> returning 0... not what I want. It seems that some other
My lua is kind of rusty... Is the password printed before or after the
"finished executing" message?
William> P.S. The other VCS I'm considering for this project is
William> Mercurial. What do people here think are Monotone's main
William> advantages, and disadvantages if you're willing to say,
William> over Mercurial?
Mercury is a highly toxic meta that should be avoided:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercury_(element)
Sorry couldn't resist ;-)
William> I've looked at Monotone before and it seems to have a
William> healthy respect for data, which is nice. Mercurial seems
William> to be being chosen by a number of high-profile projects
William> at the moment though.
Apparently Mercurial was written in Eiffel, and Monotone was written
in C++ (IIRC). I prefer the compiled to native code one - Monotone.
Apart from that I have no real experience with Mercurial.
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Brian May <address@hidden>