Applications/Mercurial

Application Details

• Description: Mercurial efficiently handles projects of any size and kind. Every clone contains the whole project history, so most actions are local, fast and convenient. Mercurial supports a multitude of workflows and you can easily enhance its functionality with extensions.
• Version: 3.9.1
• Modules: mercurial/3.9.1
• Licence: licensed under GPLv2

Usage Examples

Distributed architecture

Traditional version control systems such as Subversion are typical client-server architectures with a central server to store the revisions of a project. In contrast, Mercurial is truly distributed, giving each developer a local copy of the entire development history. This way it works independently of network access or a central server. Committing, branching and merging are fast and cheap.

Interactive Session

[username@login01 ~]$ interactive -pgpu
salloc: Granted job allocation 3619731
Job ID 3619731 connecting to gpu01, please wait...
c081.vc-main

[username@gpu01 ~]$ module add mercurial/3.9.1

Batch Script

• This does not apply here.

Clone a project and push changes

$ hg clone https://www.mercurial-scm.org/repo/hello
$ cd hello
$ (edit files)
$ hg add (new files)
$ hg commit -m 'My changes'
$ hg push

Create a project and commit

$ hg init (project-directory)
$ cd (project-directory)
$ (add some files)
$ hg add
$ hg commit -m 'Initial commit'

Further Information

• https://www.mercurial-scm.org/

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