How to use Mercurial?

Question

I assume Mercurial is having an updated website and archiving old stuff? Easy to check things etc.

My question is how exactly should I start, and can someone give me a crash course when using Mercurial and use the following technologies below:

Notepad++ for coding
FTP
PHP/MySQL
Jquery & other js libraries

I use windows and want things to be pretty simple. I am currently developing 1 website and want to have a CVS system. Or should I just stick to my current editing file in notepad ++ and upload via the ftp method and backup only once in a while?

Any thoughts?

EDIT: I'm doing http://bugtracker.gttools.com/public/wiki/bluehost/Mercurial right now to try and “install” it.

Answer 1

Mercurial is a distributed version control system, like Git, but presumably a bit simpler.

A good tutorial by Joel Spolsky can be found here .

If you read https://www.mercurial-scm.org/guide in the Main Workflow section , you should figure out how to work with it when editing files using Notepad ++, etc.

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If I'm not mistaken, you also want to upload the latest version to the website. If I am right, ftp access will not be enough for this (unless you define a hook after commit that loads the directory using ftp).