Furthermore, the most comprehensive howto that I came across elsewhere contained several instructions that were just plain wrong. You also have to figure it out from various places all over the web, and searches on Google and Stack Overflow proved to be surprisingly fruitless. However, setting it all up on Windows is not entirely straightforward, and there doesn’t seem to be a decent guide to it anywhere on the Internet: most of the instructions that you read assume that you’re using either (a) Linux or a Mac, (b) the command line, or (c) both. Github is, of course, a hosting facility for git repositories, as one would expect of a site whose name says what it means and means what it says.įortunately, it is quite possible to use Mercurial as a client against github repositories via the hg-git extension, and you can pull and push from one to the other pretty much losslessly.
Nevertheless, some of us do have a preference for one over the other, and many Subversion refugees like me who do most of their work in Windows tend to lean towards Mercurial.īut there’s no denying that github is fast becoming the Facebook of open source programming (albeit hopefully without the unethical bits, Farmville, and people tagging you in embarrassing photos for all and sundry to see), and if you want to strut your stuff as a developer, that’s the place to do it. My reasoning (as with the reasoning of everyone else who takes sides in this particular debate) is entirely subjective, so we won’t belabour the point here too much. I’m going to get really controversial here and say that I think Mercurial is better than git. One of my problems that I had during time using Mercurial, was that there were a lot of files that I didn’t want to keeping track of the changes I made.( Update: I’ve updated these instructions for Mercurial 1.6/TortoiseHg 1.1.)
Problem: OK, so now that we know what Subversion/ Mercurial is, we can get to business.
#Tortoisehg global ignore download
– You can download the Tortoise HG client from there too or you can follow the next link to download it – Tortoise SVN – a client for SVN – you will need this as well ģ. If you are a developer, I’m sure you know everything about this, if not, trust me, it is time for you to get started and use them.Ģ.
#Tortoisehg global ignore full
There are a lot of good things if you use a source control, like reverting to a previous version if you think you have made some mistake, but for full features, please read the links below. So basically if you have a small one file application that you want to keep track of the changes you make to it, you can add that file to Subversion or Mercurial (there are other source control systems as well, just do a Google search) and every time you make changes to that file and then commit, after that you will have a tree of changes you made during time. What Subversion/ Mercurial is you might ask? Well, please follow the links below and you will get a filling of what those are, but in big words, both Subversion and Mercurial are open source systems I could say that help you track the changes to files and directories of files which are under version control.
#Tortoisehg global ignore code
As a freelancer, I have to use Subversion and Mercurial a lot to keep source code and every change I make under control.
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