Re: bzr for Octave

[Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso]

On 15 June 2013 16:29, Daniel J Sebald <address@hidden> wrote:
> I agree with this Jordi.  My initial impression with Mercurial when John
> first proposed it was that it at least had this little front end of an
> automatically generated HTML interface to view diffs and log history. (Maybe
> git has that now as well.)

git has a number of web frontends, but none are built-in. You have to
set them up somehow, including providing your own webserver, unless
I'm much mistaken.

> But the log history/revision graph only goes so far because trying
> to guess where, for example, mods from four or five months back
> might be is like a game of twenty questions: -60, -300, no +60, ehh
> +100, -60. The best UI I've seen is a commercial non DVCS called
> perforce. One can zoom in and out of the revision trace, descriptive
> merges and branches, merging editor to resolve conflicts is great.
> Hg could use just a tad more convenience in this regard.

You may be excited to know that there is a GSoC student currently
working on improving hgweb, Aleksander Plavin, CC'ed here. His blog is
here:

    http://blog.aplavin.ru/

While he already has a plan, he may be interested in whatever specific
ideas you have for improving hgweb.

- Jordi G. H.