Project Hosting Tricks, part 1

MAY 22, 2009
If you use Google Code's open source project hosting service, you're probably already familiar with the standard features: the issue tracker, the wiki, the downloads-area, and the browseable version-control repository.

But the project hosting service is also full of cool bells and whistles that you may not have noticed before. We've compiled a fun list of these things which you can show off at your next, um, project hackathon. In this first post, we'll look at some version control gems.

Web-based Code Reviews


Make Stuff Happen after a Commit


Descriptive Wiki Commit Logs


Of course, one of the most exciting new features on our project hosting service is our nascent support for the Mercurial distributed version control system. If you're coming to Google I/O, be sure to come hear our talk about Mercurial on Bigtable!

By Ben Collins-Sussman, Software Engineer, Google Code