Category Archives: Mercurial

Distributed Development with Mercurial

Posted on 2010-01-11 by

Every clone of a Mercurial repository can act as a consistent, fully functional repository itself. This is a very useful property of a DVCS; one that you can take advantage of to make development a lot easier, especially for teams … Continue reading →

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Mercurial Clones without a Working Copy

Posted on 2010-01-11 by

Mercurial repository clones can have two parts: An .hg/ subdirectory, where all the repository metadata is stored A “working copy” area, where checked out files may live The .hg/ subdirectory stores the repository metadata of the specific clone, including the … Continue reading →

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FreeBSD doc-el picking up speed

Posted on 2009-06-28 by

As pleasures go, it is a strange yet somewhat refined one to see a project one has started pick up speed. My fellow translators at the Greek documentation team of FreeBSD have been busy lately, and the result of our … Continue reading →

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Dear Santa…

Posted on 2009-06-04 by

I know it’s a bit early for 2010, but can you please grant me a wish today and count it as one of the 2010 ones? For 2010 (and the rest of 2009) I wish I can keep up today’s … Continue reading →

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Mercurial crew branch grows diff -c option

Posted on 2009-01-16 by

With changeset 9c6ae2e09e11 the Mercurial “crew” branch includes support for a diff -c option now.

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Gnus message scoring actually works

Posted on 2008-11-15 by

From the let-the-flames-roll-baby department:

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Scripting Mercurial

Posted on 2008-09-16 by

Dan Fuchs posted a short article about scripting Mercurial to see what files an incoming changeset modifies. I am always amazed at how easy Mercurial (and other free software tools) make this sort of thing.

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Mercurial command demo: hg verify

Posted on 2008-09-11 by

One of the wonderful commands that Mercurial support is the “verify” command. Running this command in a Mercurial workspace goes through the backing store of the repository and makes sure that the history and contents of the versioned files are … Continue reading →

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doc-el gets commit email notifications

Posted on 2008-09-03 by

We have enabled commit email in the main freebsd/doc-el repository as of today :-)

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A bunch of updates for the Greek FreeBSD/doc translations

Posted on 2008-09-02 by

Translations of technical documentation from English to Greek are a relatively difficult task. It takes a certain level of attention to detail and a fairly good command of both languages. Then there is the minor issue of keeping the translations … Continue reading →

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