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MERCURIAL QUICK-START
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Setting up Mercurial:
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 Note: some distributions fails to include bits of distutils by
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 default, you'll need python-dev to install. You'll also need a C
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 compiler and a 3-way merge tool like merge, tkdiff, or kdiff3.
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 First, unpack the source:
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 $ tar xvzf mercurial-<ver>.tar.gz
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 $ cd mercurial-<ver>
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 To install system-wide:
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 $ python setup.py install   # change python to python2.3 if 2.2 is default
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 To install in your home directory (~/bin and ~/lib, actually), run:
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 $ python2.3 setup.py install --home=~
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 $ export PYTHONPATH=${HOME}/lib/python  # (or lib64/ on some systems)
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 $ export PATH=${HOME}/bin:$PATH         # add these to your .bashrc
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 And finally:
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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 project/
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 $ hg init         # creates .hg
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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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 Mercurial will look for a file named .hgignore in the root of your
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 repository which contains a set of regular expressions to ignore in
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Branching and merging:
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 $ hg clone linux linux-work    # create a new branch
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 $ cd linux-work
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 $ <make changes>
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 $ hg commit
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 $ cd ../linux
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 $ hg pull ../linux-work     # pull changesets from linux-work
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 $ hg update -m              # merge the new tip from linux-work into
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                             # our working directory
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 $ hg commit                 # commit the result of the merge
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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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Exporting a patch:
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 $ hg commit
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 $ hg tip
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 $ hg export 28237 > foo.patch    # export changeset 28237
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Network support:
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 # pull from the primary Mercurial repo
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 foo$ cd hg
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 # export your current repo via HTTP with browsable interface
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 foo$ hg serve -n "My repo" -p 80
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 # pushing changes to a remote repo with SSH
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 foo$ hg push ssh://user@example.com/~/hg/
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 foo$ cp hgweb.cgi ~/public_html/hg/index.cgi
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 foo$ emacs ~/public_html/hg/index.cgi # adjust the defaults