introduction to mercurial
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A short talk on Mercurial i gave at Barcamp Scotland 2008TRANSCRIPT
Barcamp Scotland 2008Introduction to Mercurial
How to improve your source control.
Tane [email protected]
http://digitalspaghetti.me.ukhttp://twitter.com/tanepiper
February 2nd, 2008
Tane Piper [email protected] Introduction to Mercurial
Introduction
What Is Covered?
A (Short) History of Source Control
Distributed Source Control
Mercurial itself
How to import your project
Download from http://tinyurl.com/2spv4h
Tane Piper [email protected] Introduction to Mercurial
Introduction
What Is Covered?
A (Short) History of Source Control
Distributed Source Control
Mercurial itself
How to import your project
Download from http://tinyurl.com/2spv4h
Tane Piper [email protected] Introduction to Mercurial
Introduction
What Is Covered?
A (Short) History of Source Control
Distributed Source Control
Mercurial itself
How to import your project
Download from http://tinyurl.com/2spv4h
Tane Piper [email protected] Introduction to Mercurial
Introduction
What Is Covered?
A (Short) History of Source Control
Distributed Source Control
Mercurial itself
How to import your project
Download from http://tinyurl.com/2spv4h
Tane Piper [email protected] Introduction to Mercurial
Introduction
What Is Covered?
A (Short) History of Source Control
Distributed Source Control
Mercurial itself
How to import your project
Download from http://tinyurl.com/2spv4h
Tane Piper [email protected] Introduction to Mercurial
A (Short) History of Source Control I
SCCS (Source Code Control System)Marc Rochkind wrote at Bell Labs, in the early 1970s.
SCCS operated on individual files and every author had accessto a shared workspace on a single system.
It was common for people to lock files, and later forget tounlock them, preventing anyone else from modifying thosefiles without the help of an administrator.
Tane Piper [email protected] Introduction to Mercurial
A (Short) History of Source Control I
SCCS (Source Code Control System)Marc Rochkind wrote at Bell Labs, in the early 1970s.
SCCS operated on individual files and every author had accessto a shared workspace on a single system.
It was common for people to lock files, and later forget tounlock them, preventing anyone else from modifying thosefiles without the help of an administrator.
Tane Piper [email protected] Introduction to Mercurial
A (Short) History of Source Control I
SCCS (Source Code Control System)Marc Rochkind wrote at Bell Labs, in the early 1970s.
SCCS operated on individual files and every author had accessto a shared workspace on a single system.
It was common for people to lock files, and later forget tounlock them, preventing anyone else from modifying thosefiles without the help of an administrator.
Tane Piper [email protected] Introduction to Mercurial
A (Short) History of Source Control II
Dick Grune developed CVS (Concurrent Versions System).
CVS let developers work simultaneously and somewhatindependently in their own personal workspaces.
They had to merge their edits prior to committing changes tothe central repository.
Tane Piper [email protected] Introduction to Mercurial
A (Short) History of Source Control II
Dick Grune developed CVS (Concurrent Versions System).
CVS let developers work simultaneously and somewhatindependently in their own personal workspaces.
They had to merge their edits prior to committing changes tothe central repository.
Tane Piper [email protected] Introduction to Mercurial
A (Short) History of Source Control II
Dick Grune developed CVS (Concurrent Versions System).
CVS let developers work simultaneously and somewhatindependently in their own personal workspaces.
They had to merge their edits prior to committing changes tothe central repository.
Tane Piper [email protected] Introduction to Mercurial
A (Short) History of Source Control III
In 2001 Jim Blandy and Karl Fogel developed Subversion.
Subversion, does not stray from CVS’s centralisedclient/server model.
Added features such as multi-file atomic commits and betternamespace management.
At the same time Graydon Hoare was working on Monotone.
Featured cryptographic hashes as identifiers, and has anintegral notion of ”trust” for code from different sources.
Tane Piper [email protected] Introduction to Mercurial
A (Short) History of Source Control III
In 2001 Jim Blandy and Karl Fogel developed Subversion.
Subversion, does not stray from CVS’s centralisedclient/server model.
Added features such as multi-file atomic commits and betternamespace management.
At the same time Graydon Hoare was working on Monotone.
Featured cryptographic hashes as identifiers, and has anintegral notion of ”trust” for code from different sources.
Tane Piper [email protected] Introduction to Mercurial
A (Short) History of Source Control III
In 2001 Jim Blandy and Karl Fogel developed Subversion.
Subversion, does not stray from CVS’s centralisedclient/server model.
Added features such as multi-file atomic commits and betternamespace management.
At the same time Graydon Hoare was working on Monotone.
Featured cryptographic hashes as identifiers, and has anintegral notion of ”trust” for code from different sources.
Tane Piper [email protected] Introduction to Mercurial
A (Short) History of Source Control III
In 2001 Jim Blandy and Karl Fogel developed Subversion.
Subversion, does not stray from CVS’s centralisedclient/server model.
Added features such as multi-file atomic commits and betternamespace management.
At the same time Graydon Hoare was working on Monotone.
Featured cryptographic hashes as identifiers, and has anintegral notion of ”trust” for code from different sources.
Tane Piper [email protected] Introduction to Mercurial
A (Short) History of Source Control III
In 2001 Jim Blandy and Karl Fogel developed Subversion.
Subversion, does not stray from CVS’s centralisedclient/server model.
Added features such as multi-file atomic commits and betternamespace management.
At the same time Graydon Hoare was working on Monotone.
Featured cryptographic hashes as identifiers, and has anintegral notion of ”trust” for code from different sources.
Tane Piper [email protected] Introduction to Mercurial
Distributed Version Control
What is Distributed Version Control?
Tane Piper [email protected] Introduction to Mercurial
Distributed Version Control (DVCS)
Both git and Mercurial were announced in April 2005 toreplace the withdrawal of free BitKeeper VC software, whichwas used to control the Linux kernel.
git developed by Linus Torvalds to manage the Linux kernel.
Mercurial was also developed for kernel, but git won out.
Tane Piper [email protected] Introduction to Mercurial
Distributed Version Control (DVCS)
Both git and Mercurial were announced in April 2005 toreplace the withdrawal of free BitKeeper VC software, whichwas used to control the Linux kernel.
git developed by Linus Torvalds to manage the Linux kernel.
Mercurial was also developed for kernel, but git won out.
Tane Piper [email protected] Introduction to Mercurial
Distributed Version Control (DVCS)
Both git and Mercurial were announced in April 2005 toreplace the withdrawal of free BitKeeper VC software, whichwas used to control the Linux kernel.
git developed by Linus Torvalds to manage the Linux kernel.
Mercurial was also developed for kernel, but git won out.
Tane Piper [email protected] Introduction to Mercurial
An Example of the DVCS Model
Figure: An example of the Mercurial distributed model.
Tane Piper [email protected] Introduction to Mercurial
Simple description of the DVCS model
No repository is king - no ”central” repository except for oneagreed in a social fashion.
Can be thought of as ”the bittorrent of the DVCS world”,compaired to CVS/SVN model which is akin to a FTP.
Cloning repositories locally allows for more experimentation.
As simple to set up as typing ’hg init’.
Tane Piper [email protected] Introduction to Mercurial
Simple description of the DVCS model
No repository is king - no ”central” repository except for oneagreed in a social fashion.
Can be thought of as ”the bittorrent of the DVCS world”,compaired to CVS/SVN model which is akin to a FTP.
Cloning repositories locally allows for more experimentation.
As simple to set up as typing ’hg init’.
Tane Piper [email protected] Introduction to Mercurial
Simple description of the DVCS model
No repository is king - no ”central” repository except for oneagreed in a social fashion.
Can be thought of as ”the bittorrent of the DVCS world”,compaired to CVS/SVN model which is akin to a FTP.
Cloning repositories locally allows for more experimentation.
As simple to set up as typing ’hg init’.
Tane Piper [email protected] Introduction to Mercurial
Simple description of the DVCS model
No repository is king - no ”central” repository except for oneagreed in a social fashion.
Can be thought of as ”the bittorrent of the DVCS world”,compaired to CVS/SVN model which is akin to a FTP.
Cloning repositories locally allows for more experimentation.
As simple to set up as typing ’hg init’.
Tane Piper [email protected] Introduction to Mercurial
Mercurial Itself
Excellent support on Windows / Unix / MacOSX
Tools such as TortoiseHG for Windows, QCT, Push Me PullYou, etc make usage easy.
Functionality can be added through an extension API withhooks (e.g. pre and post commit).
Doesn’t pollute the namespace - keeps everything in one’.hg’ directory.
Provides it’s own web interface - hgweb (hgwebdir for acollection of repositories).
Tane Piper [email protected] Introduction to Mercurial
Mercurial Itself
Excellent support on Windows / Unix / MacOSX
Tools such as TortoiseHG for Windows, QCT, Push Me PullYou, etc make usage easy.
Functionality can be added through an extension API withhooks (e.g. pre and post commit).
Doesn’t pollute the namespace - keeps everything in one’.hg’ directory.
Provides it’s own web interface - hgweb (hgwebdir for acollection of repositories).
Tane Piper [email protected] Introduction to Mercurial
Mercurial Itself
Excellent support on Windows / Unix / MacOSX
Tools such as TortoiseHG for Windows, QCT, Push Me PullYou, etc make usage easy.
Functionality can be added through an extension API withhooks (e.g. pre and post commit).
Doesn’t pollute the namespace - keeps everything in one’.hg’ directory.
Provides it’s own web interface - hgweb (hgwebdir for acollection of repositories).
Tane Piper [email protected] Introduction to Mercurial
Mercurial Itself
Excellent support on Windows / Unix / MacOSX
Tools such as TortoiseHG for Windows, QCT, Push Me PullYou, etc make usage easy.
Functionality can be added through an extension API withhooks (e.g. pre and post commit).
Doesn’t pollute the namespace - keeps everything in one’.hg’ directory.
Provides it’s own web interface - hgweb (hgwebdir for acollection of repositories).
Tane Piper [email protected] Introduction to Mercurial
Mercurial Itself
Excellent support on Windows / Unix / MacOSX
Tools such as TortoiseHG for Windows, QCT, Push Me PullYou, etc make usage easy.
Functionality can be added through an extension API withhooks (e.g. pre and post commit).
Doesn’t pollute the namespace - keeps everything in one’.hg’ directory.
Provides it’s own web interface - hgweb (hgwebdir for acollection of repositories).
Tane Piper [email protected] Introduction to Mercurial
Mercurial Commands I
’hg init <name>’ - This initialises the local repository. Youcan do this command within the root folder too.
’hg add’ - This will add any files within the directorystructure to the local repository.
’hg commit’ - This will commit any changes to your localrepository.
’hg push’ - This will push any changes to your repository.
Tane Piper [email protected] Introduction to Mercurial
Mercurial Commands I
’hg init <name>’ - This initialises the local repository. Youcan do this command within the root folder too.
’hg add’ - This will add any files within the directorystructure to the local repository.
’hg commit’ - This will commit any changes to your localrepository.
’hg push’ - This will push any changes to your repository.
Tane Piper [email protected] Introduction to Mercurial
Mercurial Commands I
’hg init <name>’ - This initialises the local repository. Youcan do this command within the root folder too.
’hg add’ - This will add any files within the directorystructure to the local repository.
’hg commit’ - This will commit any changes to your localrepository.
’hg push’ - This will push any changes to your repository.
Tane Piper [email protected] Introduction to Mercurial
Mercurial Commands I
’hg init <name>’ - This initialises the local repository. Youcan do this command within the root folder too.
’hg add’ - This will add any files within the directorystructure to the local repository.
’hg commit’ - This will commit any changes to your localrepository.
’hg push’ - This will push any changes to your repository.
Tane Piper [email protected] Introduction to Mercurial
Mercurial Commands II
’hg pull’ - This will pull the content to your localrepository from the remote repository set in the config file.
’hg update’ - Updates and merges pulls to local repositorywhere no heads are created (i.e. if you have made no localchanges since your last pull).
’hg merge’ - This will merge any heads created bypushing/pulling from repositories.
’hg log’ - View a list of changesets.
Tane Piper [email protected] Introduction to Mercurial
Mercurial Commands II
’hg pull’ - This will pull the content to your localrepository from the remote repository set in the config file.
’hg update’ - Updates and merges pulls to local repositorywhere no heads are created (i.e. if you have made no localchanges since your last pull).
’hg merge’ - This will merge any heads created bypushing/pulling from repositories.
’hg log’ - View a list of changesets.
Tane Piper [email protected] Introduction to Mercurial
Mercurial Commands II
’hg pull’ - This will pull the content to your localrepository from the remote repository set in the config file.
’hg update’ - Updates and merges pulls to local repositorywhere no heads are created (i.e. if you have made no localchanges since your last pull).
’hg merge’ - This will merge any heads created bypushing/pulling from repositories.
’hg log’ - View a list of changesets.
Tane Piper [email protected] Introduction to Mercurial
Mercurial Commands II
’hg pull’ - This will pull the content to your localrepository from the remote repository set in the config file.
’hg update’ - Updates and merges pulls to local repositorywhere no heads are created (i.e. if you have made no localchanges since your last pull).
’hg merge’ - This will merge any heads created bypushing/pulling from repositories.
’hg log’ - View a list of changesets.
Tane Piper [email protected] Introduction to Mercurial
How Mercurial Changesets Work
Figure: A example of linear changesets. This is very common inrepositories from one developer and once branch.
Tane Piper [email protected] Introduction to Mercurial
Simultaneous Local Changesets
Figure: Two local repositories with different changeset histories.
Tane Piper [email protected] Introduction to Mercurial
Results of pulling a changeset into your local repository.
Figure: Pulling a remote repository’s tip into your local repository creates2 heads. These need to be merged before you can continue.
Tane Piper [email protected] Introduction to Mercurial
Results of merging heads.
Figure: Merging the two heads together creates a new head. This cannow be pushed or pulled to other repositories and merged with otherheads.
Tane Piper [email protected] Introduction to Mercurial
Thank you for listning.
Check out more about Mercurial at http://tinyurl.com/3xphcz
SHAMELESS PLUG - Follow the progress of MercurialFrontend at http://digitalspaghetti.me.uk
Comments welcome at [email protected]
You can download these slides fromhttp://hg.digitalspaghetti.me.uk/hgtalk
Tane Piper [email protected] Introduction to Mercurial
Thank you for listning.
Check out more about Mercurial at http://tinyurl.com/3xphcz
SHAMELESS PLUG - Follow the progress of MercurialFrontend at http://digitalspaghetti.me.uk
Comments welcome at [email protected]
You can download these slides fromhttp://hg.digitalspaghetti.me.uk/hgtalk
Tane Piper [email protected] Introduction to Mercurial
Thank you for listning.
Check out more about Mercurial at http://tinyurl.com/3xphcz
SHAMELESS PLUG - Follow the progress of MercurialFrontend at http://digitalspaghetti.me.uk
Comments welcome at [email protected]
You can download these slides fromhttp://hg.digitalspaghetti.me.uk/hgtalk
Tane Piper [email protected] Introduction to Mercurial
Thank you for listning.
Check out more about Mercurial at http://tinyurl.com/3xphcz
SHAMELESS PLUG - Follow the progress of MercurialFrontend at http://digitalspaghetti.me.uk
Comments welcome at [email protected]
You can download these slides fromhttp://hg.digitalspaghetti.me.uk/hgtalk
Tane Piper [email protected] Introduction to Mercurial