Re: [ptp-dev] Is mercurial support achievable?

[Beth Tibbitts <tibbitts@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Romain,
The synchronized project support use of git is NOT related to whatever software you use for source code control.
It's only used under the covers, for synchronized local and remote files.  (So that you can develop locally, but easily build and launch remotely, among other things.)
Synchronization works independently of the user's version control system.

So if you want to use Mercurial as your source code control management software, the use of PTP/RDT synchronized projects (which use git) should not interfere.

If you really do want to create another provider for synchronized projects besides git, that's another question and I will leave it to others for the details.
Some info may be helpful, however:
[1]http://www.eclipsecon.org/2012/sessions/automatic-remote-project-synchronization-using-git

[2]http://wiki.eclipse.org/PTP/workshops/September_2012
   Especially this one: Synchronized projects: Internals and operation/Adding support for new synchronization providers - John Eblen, ORNL
      http://wiki.eclipse.org/images/6/67/Ptp-workshop-Sept-2012-sync-internals-eblen.pdf


...Beth

Beth Tibbitts
Eclipse Parallel Tools Platform  http://eclipse.org/ptp
IBM STG - High Performance Computing Tools
Mailing Address:  IBM Corp., 745 West New Circle Road, Lexington, KY 40511

Roming22 ---01/02/2013 10:41:08 AM---Hi, My company uses Mercurial as its source control management software.

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Date:	01/02/2013 10:41 AM
Subject:	[ptp-dev] Is mercurial support achievable?
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Hi,

My company uses Mercurial as its source control management software.

Do the developers of RDT believes that the sync process can be modified to work with Mercurial as well, or was Git chosen because of some specific feature?

If possible, do you have any idea of how big of a task this is?

I'd like to know before starting digging into the code ;)

Regards,
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