Mercurial

Mercurial (しばしば hg と呼称されます) は Python で書かれた分散型バージョン管理システムであり Git, Bazaar, Darcs と多くの点で似ているところがあります。

インストール

公式リポジトリの mercurial をインストールしてください。

設定

At the minimum you should configure your username or mercurial will most likely give you an error when trying to commit. Do this by editing ~/.hgrc and adding the following:

~/.hgrc

[ui]
username = John Smith

To use the graphical browser hgk aka. hg view, add the following to ~/.hgrc (see forum thread):

~/.hgrc

[extensions]
hgk=

You will need to install tk before running hg view to avoid the rather cryptic error message:

/usr/bin/env: wish: No such file or directory

To remove Mercurial warnings of unverified certificate fingerprints, add the following to ~/.hgrc (see Mercurial wiki):

~/.hgrc

[web]
cacerts = /etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt

If you are going to be working with large repositories (e.g. ttf-google-fonts-hg^AUR), you may want to enable the progress extension by adding it to your ~/.hgrc file:

~/.hgrc

[extensions]
progress =

This will show progress bars on longer operations after 3 seconds. If you would like the progress bar to show sooner, you can append the following to your configuration file:

~/.hgrc

[progress]
delay = 1.5

使用方法

All mercurial commands are initiated with the hg prefix. To see a list of some of the common commands, run

$ hg help

You can either work with a pre-existing repository (collection of code or files), or create your own to share.

To work with a pre-existing repository, you must clone it to a directory of your choice:

$ mkdir mercurial
$ cd mercurial
$ hg clone http://hg.serpentine.com/tutorial/

To create you own, change to the directory you wish to share and initiate a mercurial project

$ cd myfiles
$ hg init myfiles

ドットファイルリポジトリ

If you intend on creating a repo of all your ~/. files, you simply initiate the project in your home folder:

$ hg init

It is then just a case of adding the specific files you wish to track:

$ hg add 

You can then create a ~/.hgignore to ensure that only the files you wish to include in the repository are tracked by mercurial.

ヒント: If you include: syntax: glob at the top of the .hgignore file, you can easily exclude groups of files from your repository.

参照

• Mercurial: The Definitive Guide
• hginit.com - a tutorial by Joel Spolsky
• Mercurial Kick-Start one more tutorial by Aragost.
• Bitbucket - free and commercial hosting of mercurial repositories
• Intuxication - free mercurial hosting