What is the Difference Between Mercurial and Git? The Bookmarks extension for Mercurial adds local names, and with Mercurial 1 6, you can move these bookmarks around when you push pull I use Linux, but apparently TortoiseHg is faster and better than the Git equivalent on Windows (due to better usage of the poor Windows filesystem)
Mercurial for Beginners: The Definitive Practical Guide Inspired by Git for beginners: The definitive practical guide This is a compilation of information on using Mercurial for beginners for practical use Beginner - a programmer who has touched sou
Git and Mercurial - Compare and Contrast - Stack Overflow Mercurial uses rename tracking, while Git uses rename detection to deal with file renames Network: Mercurial supports SSH and HTTP "smart" protocols, and static HTTP protocol; modern Git supports SSH, HTTP and GIT "smart" protocols, and HTTP (S) "dumb" protocol Both have support for bundles files for off-line transport
Git vs Mercurial vs SVN - Stack Overflow SVN is different from Git and Mercurial, in that it is a single repository that all users have to pull and commit to Git and Mercurial have a distributed model This means that there is a repository on every computer and there is usually an "Official" repository that people will choose to commit their changes to and pull from Git and Mercurial are extremely similar I prefer Mercurial
Mercurial scripting with python - Stack Overflow The Python interface to the Mercurial command-server, as said, is hglib The per-command overhead of the command line interface is no joke, by the way I once built a very small test suite (only about 5 tests) that used hg via subprocess to create, commit by commit, a handful of repos with e g merge situations
version control - Introduction to Mercurial - Stack Overflow In addition to the Mercurial Book and the Hg Init tutorial, I'll like to mention the example-driven guide I've written: Mercurial Kick Start It shows how to get started with Mercurial and also covers some more advanced concepts such as named branches and hgsubversion I've used it when teaching Mercurial to new users and they seemed to like it
Convert Mercurial project to Git - Stack Overflow I need to convert a mercurial project to a git project, but I would like to keep the commit history intact My current solution was to just remove hg related files and then git init add
How to save username and password with Mercurial? 278 I used Mercurial in a personal project, and I have been typing my username and password every time I want to push something to the server I tried adding the following to the hgrc file in my home directory, but it seems to be completely ignored [ui] username = MY_USER_NAME password = MY_PASSWORD How to do this the right way?
Correct way to install Mercurial on Ubuntu - Stack Overflow Just use: sudo apt-get install mercurial It should install it in the default folder and update your environment variables correctly then you should be able to use 'hg' from the command line, just like svn, although Hg is a much better source control tool