[isabelle-dev] Mercurial conversion relaunch

[Brian Huffman]

Quoting Makarius <makarius at sketis.net>:

> Pretty soon we really need to step forward to using Mercurial
> exclusively, or stay with CVS indefinitely.
>
> There are no technical problems to move on.  It is mainly a matter of more
> people getting acquinted with the current state-of-the art in version
> control.  As pointed out before, Mercurial is actually easier to use than
> old CVS/SVN, only the way of thinking needs to be updated a little.

I installed Mercurial today and started playing around with it.  
Currently CVS gives me some trouble because I am often working on  
different parts of Isabelle concurrently; Mercurial supports this kind  
of usage much better than CVS, since it is so easy to clone  
repositories and maintain multiple branches. I also like being able to  
do diffs and commits off-line.

I see that I can use Mercurial right now for pulling changes from the  
repository, but is there any support yet for pushing changes into the  
repository? Or must I continue to use CVS for all my commits until we  
all completely switch over? Maybe there is a script which makes it  
easier to submit patches exported from Mercurial to the CVS server?

- Brian