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

Hi all,

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.

PMPU is implemented in Python and PyQt4 and is tested on Linux, though it should work on other Unix platforms. I eventually hope to support Windows hosts also. For hg, bzr and git, plugins are supplied to improve integration with the command line interface of the underlying system.

My DVCS of choice is Mercurial but I aim to properly support the other backends and have this be an SCM-agnostic system. I would appreciate expert feedback about my implementation of all the backends including Mercurial, including advice if I'm doing things wrong and suggestions of further enhancements.

Please treat this as experimental software, released as a technical preview. The error handling is not very good and my understanding of the underlying SCMs is still somewhat incomplete. I regard it as fairly safe and solid and it hasn't eaten my data during all my use and testing but please be cautious nonetheless. I don't want to make it sound like it's going to destroy the world ;-) but I'm very aware that most users of revision control have critical data to manage.

The website is here: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~maw48/pmpu/ and contains links to a downloadable tarball and the Mercurial repository.

Please feel free to send me e-mail with feedback or questions, no matter how insignificant. There's no user documentation, so don't hesitate to ask me questions about how things work. Private e-mail is fine if you prefer.

Cheers, Mark