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This is a follow up to my previous post, Setting Up Version Control On Your Home Directory. This post will cover using Mercurial instead of Git to store the files in your home directory.
To start this off you need to install Mercurial
sudo [yum or apt-get] install mercurialMy recent post about using Git/Mercurial on my home directory really pushed me to figure out which DVCS I wanted to move to long term. I wanted to share with you the reasons why I switched, not to try to convince you to switch to Mercurial, but to share with you things you may not have known about it. These observations were primarily over the last week, but I had interacted with both git and mercurial prior to taking the time to learn more about them. I will also mention that there are going to be things about Mercurial and Git that I cannot comment on. I do not deal with distributed version control as much as I do centralized so I am unable to comment on features that are more DVCS specific.
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