mercury
(Hg)
Liquid metal.
When spilled it splits in independent spheres, which
merge instantly the moment they touch.
Mercurial
(Hg)
Distributed version control system.
Evolution to the documents happen in independent locations, and changes could be easily merged together.
looks complicated, but
agree on one node as the "central" is enough
why would I want distributed?
When you push on the central server, you're not only integrating changes to the codebase,
you're also inflicting changes to other develoeprs!
Sometimes it's not the case to inflict changes to everyone until you're confident about it, but you still need to share with someone while working on it.
WHY WOULD I WANT mercurial?
(reasons in sparse order...)
-
no need for a server
-
works when offline
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easy to install and lightweight
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can do backup clones on other local disks or flash drives
- free cloud repository hosting available
- integrated in most development tools
- extensions
- easy to use!
how i use it?
For a basic usage you just need few inutuitive commands
hg init
display
hg log
hg status
hg diff
add and remove to tracking
hg add
hg forget
hg remove
persist a unit of change
hg commit
travel in time
hg update
hg revert
share
hg push
hg pull
solve conflicts
hg merge
hg resolve