Mercurial

We have kept an eye on distributed version control systems such as Mercurial, Git, and Bazaar for a long time. Mercurial has interested us especially, because it fully exploits the strengths of DVCS while being easier to use than e.g. Subversion.

We are convinced that Mercurial is the next big thing. Therefore we have a core developer on our team. With Martin Geisler we have the expert in the field.

Large players like Google, Microsoft, and Oracle already use and support Mercurial.

We will show you how you and your development team can increase your productivity with Mercurial. This is possible in virtually all cases. Especially if you recognize at least one of the following situations:

  1. The developers works at geographically separate locations. It can be in the same building, but it can also be in a different continent, e.g. when off-shoring to India.
  2. Several team members work at the same time at the same (part-)project.
  3. The team members should have the possibility to work offline. (e.g. in trains or airplanes or at home without complicated infrastructure to enable logging on to the company network)
  4. You want higher reliability. A server breakdown should not also mean that development can’t continue.
  5. You want to define the manner in which the source code goes from the developers to production (e.g. whether to use code reviews and one or more test phases) without being hindered by limitations of the SCM or have to define complicated processes to surpass these limitations.


Several repositories, e,g, for off-shore development in Switzerland, Poland and India.

We offer workshops where we do not only bring Mercurial closer to the participants and together sort out which processes your company should use to work with Mercurial. At the same time, we also build the necessary infrastructure and even converts your existing repositories (Clear Case, Visual Source Safe, CVS, Subversion, etc.) to Mercurial.

Following the workshop and if you want us to, we can also take care of your Mercurial instance (or even hosting it at our servers) and thereby make sure that:

  1. The installation is kept up to date.
  2. Processes are optimized.
  3. New employees are schooled.

Thereby you don’t have to worry about technical details, which doesn’t add value to your company. We have employees with a very large knowledge of Mercurial, because they do nothing, but working with Mercurial. Furthermore positive experiences (e.g. useful extensions, improved processes, etc.) could be incorporated into other projects.

So some of the things we can provide are:

  • Mercurial Consulting
    • Suggest best practices e.g. for workflows
  • Mercurial Support
  • Mercurial Training
  • Mercurial Customization

If you would like to have further information on how aragost Trifork can support you, then don’t hesitate to take contact Klaus Bucka-Lassen at:

E-Mail: kbl@aragost.com
Phone: +41 44 500 81 91
Mobile: +41 79 202 59 46

You can find further information and links to Mercurial at www.mercurial.ch

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