Mercurial

Mercurial is a free, distributed source control management tool. It efficiently handles projects of any size and offers an easy and intuitive interface.

• http://mercurial.selenic.com/
• http://academy.cba.mit.edu/classes/project_management/archive.html

• http://fab.cba.mit.edu/classes/MIT/863.10/people/kenny.cheung/hgNotes.html, which this is mostly built on.

Mercurial on Ubuntu

Install

Linux packages

• apt-get install mercurial tortoisehg tortoisehg-nautilus

Install .ssh

• sudo apt-get install ssh

Download the academy and academy.pub files to your .ssh folder.

install Mercurial

• sudo apt-get install mercurial

Copy this text to the terminal:

• ~/Documents/FabAcademy$ hg clone -e "ssh -p 846 -i ~/.ssh/keys/academy" ssh://hg@fab.cba.mit.edu/academy academy

To open Mercurial

• ~/Documents/FabAcademy/academy$ hg pull