Archive for the 'mercurial' Category

installing hg 0.9.4

Cleaning out some notes of mine, it seemed a shame to just throw out notes on installing hg. I’m happy to update this with sections for other platforms and other Linux distros if people send them my way.

Installation on Ubuntu (< Gutsy)

Note: only Ubuntu Gutsy has hg 0.9.4, and my Ubuntu isn’t yet Gutsy.

sudo apt-get […]

mercurial needs better end-of-line support

One real world issue with source control systems is the handling of end-of-line characters in text files. Currently Mercurial pretty much punts. The hg book says:

Note: The Windows version of Mercurial does not automatically convert line endings between Windows and Unix styles. If you want to share work with Unix users, you must do a […]