Quick Start to mercurial (HG) distributed version control

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Common version control software, such as SVN server (SVN) and VSS Administrator (VSS), all require a central server, but distributed version control software, such as mercurial, is not required. Of course, in actual use, it is generally necessary to manually specify a central library as the Publishing Server. The biggest advantage of distributed architecture is that it can work offline. Mercurial can directly create a local resource library and submit it locally. Submit it to the central server when you need to connect to the central server. Mercurial indicates moqiuli, which is the messenger of the gods in the mythology of Rome,The command line tool of mercurial is Hg. Mercurial has a lot of details on the Internet, so I won't go into details here. Here I will mainly talk about how to get started and use it quickly. Note: The following operations are performed in centos 5.6 i386 and the mercurial version is 1.8.4. In Windows, the tortoisehg version is 2.0.3.  

• First, install mercurial using yum.
  Yum install mercurial

  The official centos installation source does not include mercurial, but is included in the rpmforge library. For more information, seeHttp://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/Download= "1.4. Linux (. rpm)
  If the yum has not installed the rpmforge installation source, you can refer to another article 《Yum Quick Start-add common plug-ins and rpmforge installation sources for yum"

• Check Installation
  View version
  [Root @ svn_server mercurial] # Hg -- version
  Check Installation[Root @ svn_server mercurial] # Hg debuginstall
  
• Create user
  Useradd hguser-D/home/hguser
  Passwd hguser

• Create HgCodeLibrary
  Mkdir-P/usr/Hg/myproject
  CD/usr/Hg/myproject
  Hg init

• Test
  Echo "Hello world! "> Readme.txt
  Hg add # Add
  Hg CI # check in

• Start HTTP Server
  Chown hguser: hguser-r/usr/Hg/myproject
  
  CD/Usr/Hg/myproject
  Hg serve-P 8000 &

• Access HTTP
  Http: // yourip: 8000
  

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If you want to access this Hg project in Windows, you can download and install tortoisehg. After tortoisehg is installed, it can be integrated into the right-click menu of the resource manager. By using the clone function, you can copy the project on the server, for example:

 

During clone, the source is a remote server (which can be obtained through SSH), and the target is an empty directory.

Right-click the Hg workbench window in the menu and you can download the project pull (checkout download) and push (checkin upload)

After pull, mercurial does not update the working directory by default. You need to perform the update operation in Hg workbench.

-------------------------------------------------------- Mercurial can also be integrated with redmine. After configuring mercurial in redmine, you can view the mercurial version library in redmine.