# HG changeset patch # User mpm@selenic.com # Date 1115889831 28800 # Node ID 1c590d34bf61e2ea12c71738e5a746cd74586157 # Parent 022d98aa0a2ac6cea6e7702baafa26557bc9bd79 Minor changes for release 0.4e diff --git a/README b/README --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ Setting up Mercurial in your home direct $ tar xvzf mercurial-.tar.gz $ cd mercurial- - $ python setup.py install --home ~ + $ python2.3 setup.py install --home ~ $ export PYTHONPATH=${HOME}/lib/python # add this to your .bashrc $ export HGMERGE=tkmerge # customize this $ hg # test installation, show help @@ -14,16 +14,13 @@ Setting up Mercurial in your home direct If you get complaints about missing modules, you probably haven't set PYTHONPATH correctly. - You may also want to install psyco, the python specializing compiler. - It makes commits more than twice as fast. The relevant Debian package - is python-psyco - Setting up a Mercurial project: $ cd linux/ $ hg init # creates .hg $ hg status # show changes between repo and working dir $ hg diff # generate a unidiff + $ hg export # export a changeset as a diff $ hg addremove # add all unknown files and remove all missing files $ hg commit # commit all changes, edit changelog entry @@ -67,7 +64,9 @@ Importing patches: Fastest: $ cat ../p/patchlist | xargs hg import -p1 -b ../p -Network support (highly experimental): +Network support: + + The simple way: # pull the self-hosting hg repo foo$ hg init @@ -80,9 +79,20 @@ Network support (highly experimental): # merge changes from a remote machine bar$ hg merge http://foo/~user/hg-linux - This is just a proof of concept of grabbing byte ranges, and is not - expected to perform well. Fixing this needs some pipelining to reduce - the number of round trips. See zsync for a similar approach. + The new, fast, experimental way: + + # pull the self-hosting hg repo + foo$ hg init + foo$ hg merge hg://selenic.com/hg/ + foo$ hg checkout # hg co works too + + # Set up the CGI server on your webserver + foo$ ln -s .hg ~/public_html/hg-linux/.hg + foo$ cp hgweb.py ~/public_html/hg-linux/index.cgi + + # merge changes from a remote machine + bar$ hg merge hg://foo/~user/hg-linux + Another approach which does perform well right now is to use rsync. Simply rsync the remote repo to a read-only local copy and then do a diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py --- a/setup.py +++ b/setup.py @@ -8,11 +8,11 @@ from distutils.core import setup setup(name='mercurial', - version='0.4d', + version='0.4e', author='Matt Mackall', author_email='mpm@selenic.com', url='http://selenic.com/mercurial', description='scalable distributed SCM', license='GNU GPL', packages=['mercurial'], - scripts=['hg']) + scripts=['hg', 'hgweb.py'])