Lame question about where to make the first repository

Alberto Planas Domínguez aplanas at gmail.com
Thu Apr 8 12:27:14 CDT 2010


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2010/4/8 Ken Egervari <ken.egervari at gmail.com>:
> See, that's pretty nice. No need to get an svn server running first, and
> then have to import my person copy of the project into it and then check it
> out again. That always seems so redundant to me.
>
> The main reason I wanted to use something like mercurial is that I often
> find myself having to work on a few features at a time. Sometimes 8 out of
> the 10 features are small additions while 2 out of the 10 are multi-day
> marathons ;) What I'd like to do is work on the marthon feature in 1 project
> and still be able to add those smaller features to a totally different
> branch.
>
> That way I can deploy newer versions of the application even though my
> marathon feature isn't complete yet. Then when I finally finish the marathon
> feature, I can merge it all together again. I hope mercurial will help with
> this ;) Seems like it will, so I'm pretty excited!
>
> Ken
>
>
> On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 12:59 PM, Dirkjan Ochtman <dirkjan at ochtman.nl> wrote:
>>
>> On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 18:25, Ken Egervari <ken.egervari at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > My question is, where do I create the repository? The directory I've
>> > been
>> > working out of? Or do I need to create a special folder on my file
>> > system
>> > for the repository, and then create a clone of it as my own personal
>> > copy?
>>
>> You can just hg init in the directory where you've been working.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Dirkjan
>
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