Lame question about where to make the first repository

Ken Egervari ken.egervari at gmail.com
Thu Apr 8 12:32:01 CDT 2010


Wow, that's fantastic! Thank you so much.

*Goes to read right now*

Ken


On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 1:27 PM, Alberto Planas Domínguez
<aplanas at gmail.com>wrote:

> You can check this URL for a very fast introduction to mercurial:
>
> http://hginit.com/
>
> May be, if you have some time, you can read / use as a reference this book:
>
> http://hgbook.red-bean.com/
>
> 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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