Distributed Version Control
System
gasolin@TWJUG 2010/12/24

About Me
gasolin
●GTUG Taipei Member
●Embedded Network Device engineer
●Android developer and book author
●Pythonista
Version Control Experience:
●SourceSafe
●SVN
●Mercurial (Hg)
Contact
●gasolin@gmail.com
●www.plurk.com/gasolin

你必須使用一個原始碼控制工具，
否則你就會像缺了左膀右臂一樣
-- 編程創藝

Source
Control

Version
Control
System

CVS
1990

SVN
2001

git
2005
Linux Kernel

hg
2005

What is Mercurial for?
Distributed Version Control
System

Version Control Procedure
●Get source from repository
●Modify source
●Commit source

Version Control Procedure (Extra)
●Put source on repository
●Deal with conflict
●Offline development (DVCS)

hg Advantages

Cross platform
Windows/Mac/Linux

Similar
syntax
to svn

Not pollute namespace
save all in .hg

Tools Ready
http://cbes.javaforge.com/update
MercurialEclipse
TortoiseHg
http://tortoisehg.bitbucket.org/
Hudson Plugin
http://wiki.hudson-ci.org/display/HUDSON/Mercurial+Plugin
http://code.google.com/hosting/

Hosts Ready:
http://code.google.com/hosting/
http://bitbucket.org/

Migration Ready
Converting Svn To Hg
http://goo.gl/jReee

Cloud Version Control
+
http://db.tt/sJ60U6U

Hosting

Write Documents, Examples

Trace Issues, Bugs, Requessts

Version Control

Tagging new Version

Distributing
(Place for Download)

Empower the Coder
as Project Maintainer

While act as the User

Get a copy
$ hg clone
Local
Remote

Update changes
$ hg pull
Local
Remote

Update & Merge
$ hg up
Local

While act as Developer

Start repository
$ hg init
Local

Add control
$ hg add [file/folder]
Local

Rename File
$ hg addremove
Local

build-in web interface
$ hg serve -p [port]
Local

Remove control
$ hg rm [file/folder]
Local

Save to repository
$ hg ci -m "message"
Local

Fork a branch
$ hg branch [branch_name]
Local
Remote

Merge a branch
$ hg up default
$ hg merge [branch_name]
Local
Remote

Share commits
$ hg push
Local
Remote
(or add destination)

Tagging
$ hg tag [tag name]
Local

Thanks for listening