Apache Subversion

hooks over the web.

I was running a service called DevJaboo that was kind of like a GitHub, but with SVN.

It was based on Track.

You guys remember Track?

Eric Reese wrote that book, but he was working at a company called IMVU or MVU, which was kind of just a social chat environment, but they hired a lot of game developers, really talented people.

And they had ended up with this really powerful system organizationally that was sort of allowing people to make features and anybody could make a feature and deploy it and see how it impacts the bottom line.

And they had the safety to do that because they had good test coverage and a pre-commit SVN hook.

So you couldn't commit code that would break things because it would run all the tests before it even entered the repository.

I should probably take the time to do that because for example, it took me forever to switch to Git, which in retrospect was stupid.

I was still using SVN, you know, way, way, way past the point where I should have switched to Git.

And the reason is I built a bunch of tools above SVN back then that I knew well, but in retrospect, you're like, no, Git branching is way better than whatever, you know, whatever I built.

So I should have switched earlier on.

Um, but anyway, right now I basically have four or five, six agents.

and got part of the community.

And as part of that, they looked for a new version control system to replace Subversion in the long run.

And so people brought up Git.

And then I looked into Git, and then I looked and found Mercurial, which was at the time already developed by a person now called Olivia Meckel.