Fabien Benetou's PIM | Tools / Mercurial

Potential extensions

Note that most of those are actually to consider for code repository overall, thus could be interesting for Git too.

wiki
- see discussion on #wiki/freenode at 08:58 the 17/09/2010 with TheSheep, author of hatta-wiki.org
project self-management with Proposals.ProjectMeritocracy
ΦFP-oriented feed reader
- currently using newsbeuter which might be more programmable
programming vocabulary learner
- described on ##PIM/freenode at 11:26 the 14th of September 2010
- see Cognition#LearningNewLanguage
- Python related example by Dan Villiom P. Christiansen (danchr on #mercurial/freenode)
  - (:toggle init=hide id=Tools.Mercurial button=1:)

from mercurial import hg, ui

repo = hg.repository(ui.ui(), '.')

for r in repo:
  ctx = repo[r]
  l = 0
  for f in ctx:
    l += ctx[f].data().count('\n')
    # ctx.data() returns the text of the file
  print r, l

consider templating system in conjunction with the theming system to directly output content with its interface? (RSS fee reader, IdeaOntology, Wiki links, ...)
code timeline of code-repo generated with code-repo.plt to stay coherent with wiki timeline
other visualization for genifer project

From personal use

hg help : the MOST important command ;)
"History is Sacred" in DVCSAnalysis - Analysis of Git and Mercurial Project Hosting on Google Code
hooks
- hghooklib A library of Python based hook scripts for Mercurial VCS
- which is different from PostCommitWebHooks Google Code How to use Post-Commit Web Hooks for your project.
hg bisect which sounds very useful for Seedea:Content/Newconcepts#DeltaDebugging
hg ignore and its .hgignore file
hg manifest to display the list of the files within a specific revision
- for rev in $(seq 0 $(hg id -r tip -n)) ; do hg man -r $rev | xargs hg cat -r $rev | wc -l ; done thanks to Ry4an on #mercurial/freenode
- example with genifer-loc.png without .odp and .jar files and thanks to genifer-loc.plt
hg cat to print the content of a file within a specific revision
- e.g. hg cat -r 0 `hg man -r 0` | wc -l
  - hg man -r 0 -0 | xargs -0 hg cat -r 0 | wc -l thanks to danchr on #mercurial/freenode
web access (often deactivated)
- through CGI with hgweb.cgi at http://www.innovativ.it/hgweb.cgi and with hgwebdir.cgi at http://www.innovativ.it/hgwebdir.cgi
- through own minimal httpd hg serve and lighttpd proxy.server from port 8000 to http://hg.innovativ.it
hg log --template '{date}\n' | sed "s/\..*//" | sort -n | uniq > ~/www/socialbehaviors/edits_in_unixtime.data
- Chapter�11.�Customizing the output of Mercurial by Bryan O'Sullivan, Mercurial: The Definitive Guide
Accessing SSH Controlled Repositories From a Windows Client, Mercurial official wiki
- using Plink and Pageant
- Key-Based SSH Logins With PuTTY by Falko Timme, HowtoForge 2006
Google Code supports Mercurial and also uses it for the wiki section
abort: outstanding uncommitted changes FAQ/CommonProblems, Mercurial official wiki
abort: push creates new remote heads! Using Mercurial MDC
Understanding Mercurial, Mercurial official wiki

Tutorials

Mercurial Project by Bryan O'Sullivan, Google Tech Talk 2006
- ~30min "If you are working on open source software, the only thing that you have working for you is :
  - A: technical merit
  - B: credibility"
  - see also the last chapters of InformationRules
Mercurial on BigTable by Jacob Lee, Google I/O 2009
- webhooks are supported
Distributed Version Control (DVCS) With Mercurial by Ted Naleid, 2007

To do

consider subrepos
share http://hgbook.red-bean.com/ to Raymond Yee
- supports contributions, comment, RSS per chapter, etc

To explore

ProjectMeritocracy#CurrentSituation
alternatives
- Programming#RCSRevision control software or RCS
- Programming#CVS(distributed) Version Control System or (D)VCS
- Programming#SCM Source Code Management
- Wikipedia:Comparison of revision control software
Hg Init .com a Mercurial tutorial by Joel Spolsky
- up to part 3 on "Fixing goofs"
Writing Mercurial extensions, Mercurial official wiki
Intro to Distributed Version Control (Illustrated) by Kalid Azad, BetterExplained

Note

My notes on Tools gather what I know or want to know. Consequently they are not and will never be complete references. For this, official manuals and online communities provide much better answers.

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