What's the best dcvs to use with Qt ?

john_god

Shame on me, I have been lazy and still havent tested none of those, I just copy my current project directory and start a branch from there.
Humm, a couple a days ago just had a nasty hard disk crush, I think I'm going to loose 2 weeks of development, so it's time to start looking for a on-line repository. I think will try git...

flywheel

I am simply unable to function with Git - it is a mutual hate/hate relationship.

Mercurial on the other hand worked almost out-of-the-box for me and it works fine in Qt-Creator to.

Franzk

There's a nice comparison between git and mercurial on "some blog somewhere":http://importantshock.wordpress.com/2008/08/07/git-vs-mercurial/. It basically states that git is MacGuyver, while Mercurial is James Bond. Just read it for some more.

mzimmers

I suppose it's about time for me to adopt a CM tool. I'll be the sole developer on this project, but I want to "do it right." Do we have a tutorial anywhere on the Mercurial integration?

Thanks.

goetz

The mercurial integration of Qt Creator should be straightforward, it's the command line tools with some nice GUI around it. First, you need to get accustomed to mercurial as such :-)

Best is to start with the Mercurial docs and play the examples on the command line.

mzimmers

Thanks...I tried creating a repository (from withing Creator), and it failed, so I figured I'd better start doing some reading.

goetz

What was the error message?

And depending on how and where Mercurial is installed, it might be necessary to tell Qt Creator the path (Preferences / Version control / Mercurial; enter the path to hg in the top most field and your Name and Email in that below, unfortunately Creator seems not to pick up the default values...

mzimmers

Well, the error message I was alluding to was "A version control repository could not be created in (my directory)," but...

...I just looked at the messages in the version control window, and it says it can't find hg, so I think you're right. In fact, I'm not convinced it's installed on my system. I assumed because the create command in the Tools->Mercurial menu was active, it was installed; not necessarily so?

goetz

Nope, unfortunately the menus are not disabled then.

Mercurial is not installed by default on a Mac OS X box (as opposed to subversion). You can install it easily with

@
sudo easy_install -U mercurial
@

You can use this command too, to upgrade mercurial, once a new version is out.

hg is then installed in /usr/local/bin, thus you should enter /usr/local/bin/hg in the config box.

mzimmers

Actually, I downloaded it from a site I found through google. The repository created successfully this time, so I'll assume the other stuff will work. Thanks, Volker.

goetz

That's ok too, of course.

Feel free to ask further questions, if you have, possibly on a new thread in the Lounge for example, as Mercurial is not so deeply Qt-related :-)