Comments for Rooftop lab http://blog.mozilla.com/jorendorff where we're building a better ActionMonkey from parts Fri, 29 Aug 2008 01:41:10 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 Comment on Underscores by Axel Hecht http://blog.mozilla.com/jorendorff/2008/08/21/underscores/#comment-19121 Axel Hecht Fri, 22 Aug 2008 17:50:33 +0000 http://blog.mozilla.com/jorendorff/?p=16#comment-19121 Thanks, cloned that. Thanks, cloned that.

]]> Comment on Underscores by Eric Shepherd http://blog.mozilla.com/jorendorff/2008/08/21/underscores/#comment-19091 Eric Shepherd Thu, 21 Aug 2008 22:38:00 +0000 http://blog.mozilla.com/jorendorff/?p=16#comment-19091 Awesome! Thanks! Awesome! Thanks!

]]> Comment on Push to try by Lone ranger http://blog.mozilla.com/jorendorff/2008/08/18/push-to-try/#comment-18992 Lone ranger Tue, 19 Aug 2008 02:48:47 +0000 http://blog.mozilla.com/jorendorff/?p=15#comment-18992 Dirkjan is half-right (or half-wrong, your pick...) To push with mq patches applied you must force ( -f ) the push. Dirkjan is half-right (or half-wrong, your pick…)

To push with mq patches applied you must force ( -f ) the push.

]]> Comment on Push to try by Dirkjan Ochtman http://blog.mozilla.com/jorendorff/2008/08/18/push-to-try/#comment-18975 Dirkjan Ochtman Mon, 18 Aug 2008 20:25:00 +0000 http://blog.mozilla.com/jorendorff/?p=15#comment-18975 I seem to remember you can't push with mq csets applied... Did you actually test that stuff? I seem to remember you can’t push with mq csets applied… Did you actually test that stuff?

]]> Comment on Conservative stack scanning 101 by Joe Larson http://blog.mozilla.com/jorendorff/2007/08/09/conservative-stack-scanning-101/#comment-18602 Joe Larson Thu, 07 Aug 2008 21:56:17 +0000 http://blog.mozilla.com/jorendorff/2007/08/09/conservative-stack-scanning-101/#comment-18602 I just found your site while looking at an old IOCCC entry your wrote called adventure. Then I saw this entry. I love this stuff. I was actually looking you up in reference to that IOCCC entry. If you would please e-mail me. I just found your site while looking at an old IOCCC entry your wrote called adventure. Then I saw this entry.

I love this stuff.

I was actually looking you up in reference to that IOCCC entry. If you would please e-mail me.

]]> Comment on Mercurial, and other monsters by Joseph R. Justice http://blog.mozilla.com/jorendorff/2008/02/06/mercurial-and-other-monsters/#comment-14411 Joseph R. Justice Sun, 08 Jun 2008 00:02:16 +0000 http://blog.mozilla.com/jorendorff/2008/02/06/mercurial-and-other-monsters/#comment-14411 Your link in the article to "understandable frustration" should probably be to the permalink for that particular blog post and not to the blog's front / home page. The permalink appears to be http://blog.mozilla.com/blassey/2008/02/05/hg-as-a-colaboration-tool/ . Thanks for your time. Hope this is of some use, interest. Joseph PS: IMO, the little GUI icons beside the fields for posting a comment should have a tooltip or something, and/or a text addition, indicating what each field is supposed to contain. I had to look at the file properties for each graphic and look at the file name to make a guess as to what's supposed to go where. -- J Your link in the article to “understandable frustration” should probably be to the permalink for that particular blog post and not to the blog’s front / home page.

The permalink appears to be http://blog.mozilla.com/blassey/2008/02/05/hg-as-a-colaboration-tool/ .

Thanks for your time. Hope this is of some use, interest.

Joseph

PS: IMO, the little GUI icons beside the fields for posting a comment should have a tooltip or something, and/or a text addition, indicating what each field is supposed to contain. I had to look at the file properties for each graphic and look at the file name to make a guess as to what’s supposed to go where. — J

]]> Comment on Stage 0 home stretch by Surfing http://blog.mozilla.com/jorendorff/2007/08/08/stage-0-home-stretch/#comment-5874 Surfing Wed, 20 Feb 2008 23:04:43 +0000 http://blog.mozilla.com/jorendorff/2007/08/08/stage-0-home-stretch/#comment-5874 Good to hear it's all going well. Good to hear it’s all going well.

]]> Comment on Mercurial, and other monsters by jorendorff http://blog.mozilla.com/jorendorff/2008/02/06/mercurial-and-other-monsters/#comment-5096 jorendorff Thu, 07 Feb 2008 16:55:10 +0000 http://blog.mozilla.com/jorendorff/2008/02/06/mercurial-and-other-monsters/#comment-5096 In reply to comment #1: I really don't know what that means. You can do that with CVS. dougt makes the point that you can even do cloning-like things with CVS: because it's simple and you've used it for years and you understand it, you can hack it (writing shell scripts to copy things around and make patches, for example.) And because you write the hacks yourself, they're no more complex than your use case demands, and you understand them and are less likely to make mistakes. (I kind of disagree with all that, but I can see where he's coming from.) The power of hg is all in cloning. Where with CVS there's a single central repo, hg gives you an arbitrary graph of repos that you can hook up any way you want. The power is in the paradigm shift, and the paradigm shift is tricky and takes time to absorb. Hence my comparison to C vs. C++. In reply to comment #1: I really don’t know what that means. You can do that with CVS.

dougt makes the point that you can even do cloning-like things with CVS: because it’s simple and you’ve used it for years and you understand it, you can hack it (writing shell scripts to copy things around and make patches, for example.) And because you write the hacks yourself, they’re no more complex than your use case demands, and you understand them and are less likely to make mistakes.

(I kind of disagree with all that, but I can see where he’s coming from.)

The power of hg is all in cloning. Where with CVS there’s a single central repo, hg gives you an arbitrary graph of repos that you can hook up any way you want.

The power is in the paradigm shift, and the paradigm shift is tricky and takes time to absorb. Hence my comparison to C vs. C++.

]]> Comment on Mercurial, and other monsters by Gijs http://blog.mozilla.com/jorendorff/2008/02/06/mercurial-and-other-monsters/#comment-5089 Gijs Thu, 07 Feb 2008 12:27:17 +0000 http://blog.mozilla.com/jorendorff/2008/02/06/mercurial-and-other-monsters/#comment-5089 Well, here's for hoping it won't take Mozilla 10 years to make peace with Mercurial. ;-) (for full disclosure, I haven't had to touch it for actual development yet) Well, here’s for hoping it won’t take Mozilla 10 years to make peace with Mercurial. ;-)

(for full disclosure, I haven’t had to touch it for actual development yet)

]]> Comment on Mercurial, and other monsters by Ian http://blog.mozilla.com/jorendorff/2008/02/06/mercurial-and-other-monsters/#comment-5078 Ian Thu, 07 Feb 2008 09:00:08 +0000 http://blog.mozilla.com/jorendorff/2008/02/06/mercurial-and-other-monsters/#comment-5078 Why Mercurial and not Git out of interest? Why Mercurial and not Git out of interest?

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