Mercurial setup
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Mercurial is a cross-platform, distributed revision control tool implemented primarily in Python that allows software developers to track changes to files and coordinate work on projects. It can be used on Windows and Unix-like systems through command line commands to the hg program. The document provides basic instructions for setting up a new Mercurial repository by creating a local directory and committing and pushing a "Hello World" file to demonstrate creating a new repository.
Mercurial setup
- 2. Mercurial ● Mercurial is a cross-platform, distributed revision control tool for software developers. ● It is mainly implemented using the Python programming language, but includes a binary diff implementation written in C. ● It is supported on MS Windows and Unix-like systems, such as FreeBSD, Mac OS X and Linux. ● Mercurial is primarily a command line program. ● All of Mercurial's operations are invoked as arguments to its driver program hg, a reference to the chemical symbol of the element mercury.
- 3. Create a new repository
- 4. Set up your local directory Ex.
- 5. Check
- 6. Commit, and push your first file
- 7. Supply UserName and Push
- 9. Source:
- 11. Hello, World has been added!