Re: [ANNOUNCE] Push Me Pull You 0.2 - Tech Preview Release

[Mark Williamson <mark.williamson@cl.cam.ac.uk>]

> > I'd like to announce a new release of the Push Me Pull You (pmpu) tool; a
> > GUI for distributed revision control systems.
> >
> > PMPU supports plain hg, hg forest repositories, bzr, git and darcs as
> > underlying repositories.  It aims to provide a powerful graphical
> > interface to the underlying functionality, based around the workflow of
> > incoming and outgoing changesets.
>
> I haven't tried to look at this since your 0.1 announcement
> (which unfortunately was accepted with a thundering silence
> here),

Heheh, yeah, I was almost deafened by it :-)  But it's a new obscure tool, 
written using an foreign SCM so I'm not surprised if uptake is slow!

> but it would be interesting if it allowed to pull from Hg 
> into git (or other combinations).  Is that one of the features
> (or planned features)?

That's not one of the current features; I've been focusing on making basic 
functionality of each of the backend available from the GUI.  I'm trying to 
do this in a standardised way so that the GUI always looks / acts the same 
regardless of underlying storage repository.

But yes, in the future I'd like to wrap the process of repository conversion / 
interaction so that's it's easier for people on different SCM backends to 
collaborate.  I've been pondering whether a commandline-based "universal SCM 
tool" that could transparently provide DVCS functionality on top of a variety 
of systems would be worth playing with at some point.

Cheers,
Mark

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