Mercurial is a fast, open-source, distributed version control system.
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How does Mercurial determine which changesets I need when I pull?
This is a question about the internal workings of Mercurial.
I vaguely remember a fellow programmer explaining to me how mercurial works out which changesets differ between two repositories and that ...
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Big project layout : adding new feature on multiple sub-projects
I want to know how to manage a big project with many components with version control management system.
In my current project there are 4 major parts.
Web
Server
Admin console
Platform.
The web ...
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Can you close branches in Git?
In Mercurial you can close a branch like this: hg commit --close-branch, this means the the branch will not be listed anymore but will still exist, and can still be listed if you use hg branches ...
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How do distributed version-control systems deal with fragmentation?
Here is the scenario:
X is the author of a software. X releases v1.0 on an open source license on Github and moves on. People interested in the software fork and improve the software. Now there are ...
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When to separate a project in multiple subprojects
I'd like to know if it makes sense to divide the project I'm working on in two repositories instead of one.
From what I can say:
Frontend will be written in html+js
Backend in .net
The backend ...
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Release Management Tools with DVCS (Mercurial)
My development team is migrating from SVN to Mercurial. Having researched DVCS best practices, it has been suggested that we develop against feature branches of the repo mainline, test them ...
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Is it a good idea to create multiple heads with Mercurial? [closed]
I just made a commit that I want to reverse, but I want to keep the bad commit in history. So, I hg update to the previous (good) commit. Then I keep working.
This leaves me with a new head: the ...
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Fixing a push to the wrong branch
I committed and pushed some changes to the wrong branch. I found a way to fix it, but it seems overly complicated. Is this really the easiest way?
on the branch that you made your changes, type hg ...
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hginit - #ifdefs ridiculous
I was reading Joel Spolsky's mercurial introduction when it struck me:
"And now what they do is this: each new feature is in a big #ifdef block. So they can work in one single trunk, while ...
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Branching breaks continous integration?
I think this article, A Successful Git Branching Model, is very well known among experienced DVCS users.
I use hg mostly, but I would argue this discussion is fine for any DVCS.
Our current ...
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Why is the sudden increase in number of Git submitters on Debian popcon graph in 2010-01?
Almost every article I've read 1 comparing Git and Mercurial it seems like Mercurial has a better command line UX with each command being limited to one idea only (unlike say git checkout).
But at ...
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What's so difficult about SVN merges? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
I’m a Subversion geek, why should I consider or not consider Mercurial or Git or any other DVCS?
Every once in a while, you hear someone saying that distributed version ...
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What is the point to namespaces in branches in git?
So I mainly use Mercurial for my projects and I decided to sit down and learn all Git's shenanigans to discover if I'm in the right side (at least for me).
I'm learning that git uses namespaces for ...
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How can I get rid of just the untracked files in git? [closed]
In Mercurial I can do this with the bundled Purge Extension and executing the following command:
hg purge
Also good to get rid of ignored files:
hg purge --all
I'm curious about the most ...
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Why can Perforce be a better version control system? [closed]
I've seen some people love and some loathe Perforce. As users or administrators with experience with other version control systems (free cookie to the ones with DVCS experience [git, Mercurial]), what ...
