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

[Kai Grossjohann]

Francisco Diaz Trepat - gmail wrote:
> 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?
You already have a "dedicated user".  Its name is mercurial.

Use "vipw -s" (as root, perhaps "sudo vipw -s") to edit the /etc/shadow 
file.  It contains one line per user.  Each line begins with the 
username, followed by a colon, followed by the hash of a password, 
followed by another colon and additional data.  In the line for 
mercurial, replace all the gibberish between the first and the second 
colon by a single * character.  Double-check that you didn't touch the 
colons in that line, nor other others.  Check again that the format is 
still fine.  Save the file.

> Can I import the CVS repository with its current (3) branches and its 
> history?
Yes.  Go to the CVS working copy (not repository) and do "hg convert . 
../bla".

> And finnally if a file is rename, all history is lost. Right? does 
> this happen in all scms?
I'm surprised that Mercurial loses history across renames.  Perhaps 
someone in the know can clear this up?

Kai

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