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Setting up Mercurial in your home directory:
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 Note: Debian fails to include bits of distutils, you'll need
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 python-dev to install. Alternately, shove everything somewhere in
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 your path.
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 $ tar xvzf mercurial-<ver>.tar.gz
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 $ cd mercurial-<ver>
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 $ python2.3 setup.py install --home ~
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 $ export PYTHONPATH=${HOME}/lib/python  # add this to your .bashrc
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 $ export HGMERGE=tkmerge                # customize this
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 $ hg                                    # test installation, show help
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 If you get complaints about missing modules, you probably haven't set
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 PYTHONPATH correctly.
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Setting up a Mercurial project:
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 $ cd linux/
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 $ hg init         # creates .hg
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 $ hg status       # show changes between repo and working dir
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 $ hg diff         # generate a unidiff
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 $ hg addremove    # add all unknown files and remove all missing files
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 $ hg commit       # commit all changes, edit changelog entry
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 $ hg export       # export a changeset as a diff
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 Mercurial will look for a file named .hgignore in the root of your
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 repository contains a set of regular expressions to ignore in file
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Mercurial commands:
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 $ hg history          # show changesets
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 $ hg log Makefile     # show commits per file
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 $ hg checkout         # check out the tip revision
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 $ hg checkout <id>    # check out a specified changeset
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                       # IDs can be tags, revision numbers, or unique
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                       # subsets of changeset hash numbers
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 $ hg add foo          # add a new file for the next commit
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 $ hg remove bar       # mark a file as removed
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 $ hg verify           # check repo integrity
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 $ hg tags             # show current tags
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 $ hg annotate [files] # show changeset numbers for each file line
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Branching and merging:
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 $ cd ..
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 $ mkdir linux-work
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 $ cd linux-work
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 $ hg branch ../linux        # create a new branch
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 $ hg checkout               # populate the working directory
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 $ <make changes>
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 $ hg commit
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 $ cd ../linux
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 $ hg merge ../linux-work    # pull changesets from linux-work
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Importing patches:
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 Fast:
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 $ patch < ../p/foo.patch
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 $ hg addremove
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 $ hg commit
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 $ patch < ../p/foo.patch
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 $ hg commit `lsdiff -p1 ../p/foo.patch`
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 $ cat ../p/patchlist | xargs hg import -p1 -b ../p 
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Network support:
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 # pull the self-hosting hg repo
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 foo$ hg init
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 foo$ hg merge http://selenic.com/hg/
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 foo$ hg checkout  # hg co works too
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 # export your current repo via HTTP with browsable interface
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 # merge changes from a remote machine
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 bar$ hg merge http://foo/
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 bar$ hg co        # checkout the result
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 # Set up a CGI server on your webserver
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 foo$ emacs ~/public_html/hg-linux/index.cgi # adjust the defaults
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