Distributed Version control with Mercurial

1. Distributed Version control with Mercurial

2. Brian Sullivan • Falcon Applications, LLC – Shreveport, LA • Shreveport .NET User Group Leader • bmsullivan@gmail.com • http://www.sullivansoftdev.com/blog • http://twitter.com/bmsullivan

3. Agenda • Why DVCS, and why Mercurial? • Installation and project setup • Basic usage • Branching and merging • Migrating from other version control systems • Writing Extensions in Python

4. Why DVCS? • Problems with centralized VCS • Connection-dependent • Single POF • Difficult merging • DVCS solutions • Local repository • P2P architecture • Branching/merging are first-class citizens

5. Why Mercurial? • Fast • Easy to learn • Cross-platform • Easy customization • Community and adoption rate

7. The Bare Essentials • init • clone • add • commit • revert • diff • log • push • pull • update • merge

8. Demo

9. Migrating • Convert extension • Subversion • CVS • git • Darcs • Bazaar • Interop • HgGit • HgSubversion

10. Demo: Extensions

11. Resources • Mercurial Official Site - http://mercurial.selenic.com/ • TortoiseHg - http://tortoisehg.bitbucket.org/ • HgBook - http://hgbook.red-bean.com/

12. Recap • Why DVCS, and why Mercurial? • Installation and project setup • Basic usage • Branching and merging • Migrating from other version control systems • Writing Extensions in Python

13. Questions?