Mercurial

Mercurial is an SCM written in that has a number of interesting features.

Resources:

Date Link Notes
2010
Mar 27 Hg Init Possibly the best online tutorial available right now.
2009
Jun 15 Hg-Git mercurial plugin A brilliant, pure implementation of that lets you work on repositories without installing at all.
Feb 26 InDefero A Google Code clone with and support. Regrettably, it is written in , but should nevertheless be useful for internal deployments.
Mercurial-easy A very nice curses front-end
CuteHg An even nicer graphical front-end.
Older Get ‘hg view’ to work in Mac OS X
bundle
tailor a tool to migrate changesets across different SCMs
TortoiseHg a Explorer extension (requires the Win32 install and PyGTK)

Notes:

My .hgignore file:

syntax: glob
*.log
*.log.?
*.log.??
*.pyc
*.pyo
.*.swp
*~ 
.DS_Store
._*

Updating a local instance upon push/pull (used to publish this entire site):

$ cat space/.hg/hgrc 
[hooks]
changegroup = hg update  

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