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Re: by mitrandir77 on Tuesday November 15, 2022 @05:38PM (#33616171)
Nobody commented on the web interface yet which I think it's one of our coolest features: https://sapling-scm.com/docs/addons/isl
Re: by stoicjumbotron on Tuesday November 15, 2022 @09:45PM (#33618184)
Woah! This really is cool!
Re: by kyrra on Tuesday November 15, 2022 @10:21PM (#33618413)
I'm sort of amazed that git and mercurial haven't built something like that yet. Makes me a little sad that Facebook created a new scm instead of expanding mercurial to include features like this.
Re: by alwillis on Tuesday November 15, 2022 @11:00PM (#33618675)
Facebook did contribute a lot to Mercurial back in the day; maybe not so much today.

Yes, this would be awesome for Mercurial.

Re: by charcircuit on Wednesday November 16, 2022 @12:19AM (#33619228)
Sapling is a fork of Mercurial. It isn't a completely new scm.
Re: by ezst on Wednesday November 16, 2022 @02:36PM (#33629255)
just type `hg serve` and that will spin-up a web UI like this one:

https://www.mercurial-scm.org/repo/hg/graph/tip

, seems to have been included since 2005 :)

Re: by kyrra on Wednesday November 16, 2022 @10:30PM (#33634591)
I don't think you can do commits from hg serve, can you?
Re: by ezst on Thursday November 17, 2022 @03:20AM (#33636257)
I'm not aware that you can