Great News !!! After one year of constant nagging we test mercurial

[Francisco Diaz Trepat - gmail]

Hi everyone, Its so good to be back asking questions on this list.

I've been using mercurial personally (and it is awesome.) I asked some
questions on the list last year and have been in it since.

I went to my boss (we use cvs) and started the so called evangelization
mission and finally I am on an Ubuntu machine trying to install a Mercurial
repository to work as centrar repository.

And it only took a year.

:-)

*Well here is the Scenario:*

We have a 3 Branched CVS repository. In Zurich.
We have some developers there and some other ones in Buenos Aires.
We are not a large group < 20.

I am on a Desktop Ubuntu Hardy up-to-date. over intel 32b two processor
normal machine.

I am following the instructions on the SharedSSH (
http://www.selenic.com/mercurial/wiki/index.cgi/SharedSSH) which I deemed
more appropiatly.

I already made a bad choice and I was wondering if I could continue anyways.

Instead of providing the dedicate user:

"The first step is creating a dedicated user on the server side -- let's
call it *mercurial*. Nobody should be able to log into this account
with a password,
so set the password field in the /etc/passwd (or /etc/shadow) to *. "

which I did not understand and did not look it up. I created a user
mercurial with password mercurial. I know this is not a good security
practice but it is for a test to see how we do.

*My Main Goal:*

0000- Adopt mercurial as our SCM.

1) Have a central mercurial server (like the one we have now with cvs).

2) have fun testing mergers and clonnings and commiting and stuff I'll
probably ask here on the list to blow the minds of my colleagues.

*Questions:*

Do I need to go back and create a "dedicated user" with the password on
/shadows/.... or can I continue with an administrator user
mercurial/mercurial?


Can I import the CVS repository with its current (3) branches and its
history?


And finnally if a file is rename, all history is lost. Right? does this
happen in all scms?

Cheers, and thanks in advance,
f(t)
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