Category Archive: Mercurial

Feb 07 2008

Mercurial and Distributed Code Management

Spent a few hours tonight setting up a very simple Mercurial repository and tested it for distributed code development. Using cron jobs and 3 temporary user ids, the only file is modified in the respective local repositories of the users over a period of time. When the changes from all these repositories is pulled into …

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Jan 24 2007

First Look at Mercurial

Wanted to play with Mercurial a bit. Have a Sparc Desktop that runs with Solaris 10, so wanted to use it for this. When I checked the home page of Mercurial, the binary packages of Solaris-Sparc are downloadable from BlastWave. This particular Desktop was not setup to work with pkg-get earlier, so I followed the …

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