HowToMercurial

Mercurial

This explains how to stay up to date with your sources using mercurial (http://www.selenic.com/mercurial/) (hg).

(!) Unlike previous Mercurial mirrors the one in anoncvs.estpak.ee have branches support. Branches support in Mercurial is still work in progress and might be buggy. HEAD is OK to use. Following assumes that at least

Mercurial 0.9.4 is used.

Install mercurial

cd /usr/pkgsrc/devel/mercurial && bmake install

Using one source tree from stable branch in /usr/src

cd /usr

hg clone -r HEAD http://anoncvs.estpak.ee/hg/dragonfly-src src

Later you update with

cd /usr/src && hg pull && hg up HEAD

More than one checkout

If you need more than one checkout, maybe for development, the idea is to keep "master" tree in /home/dsrc.hg and to make local clones/checkouts from there. For example keep the latest stable in /usr/src and latest development branch in /home/user/src.

hg clone -U http://anoncvs.estpak.ee/hg/dragonfly-src /home/dsrc.hg

hg clone -r DragonFly_RELEASE_1_8 /home/dsrc.hg /usr/src

hg clone -r HEAD /home/dsrc.hg /home/user/src

Later you update your local master repo with

cd /home/dsrc.hg

hg pull

Then your slave trees

cd /usr/src

hg pull && hg up DragonFly_RELEASE_1_8

cd /home/user/src

hg pull && hg up HEAD