3 d944f764 2007-11-05 rsc hg \- introduction to using plan9port Mercurial repository
7 d944f764 2007-11-05 rsc .B http://hg.pdos.csail.mit.edu/hg/plan9
31 d944f764 2007-11-05 rsc .B http://hg.pdos.csail.mit.edu/hg/plan9/
32 d944f764 2007-11-05 rsc .SH DESCRIPTION
33 d944f764 2007-11-05 rsc The master source tree for Plan 9 from User Space is maintained
34 d944f764 2007-11-05 rsc using the source control system Mercurial
35 d944f764 2007-11-05 rsc as a substitute for Plan 9's
36 d944f764 2007-11-05 rsc \fIreplica\fR(8) and dump file system.
37 d944f764 2007-11-05 rsc (It is maintained simultaneously using CVS; see
38 d944f764 2007-11-05 rsc .IR cvs (1).)
40 d944f764 2007-11-05 rsc The first argument to
42 d944f764 2007-11-05 rsc is a command, which determines the form of the rest of the command line.
46 d944f764 2007-11-05 rsc command downloads a copy of the tree into the directory
48 d944f764 2007-11-05 rsc which it will create.
52 d944f764 2007-11-05 rsc the other commands listed
53 d944f764 2007-11-05 rsc should be run within the
55 d944f764 2007-11-05 rsc directory tree.
57 d944f764 2007-11-05 rsc Unlike CVS, Mercurial downloads the entire revision history
58 d944f764 2007-11-05 rsc of Plan 9 from User Space
59 d944f764 2007-11-05 rsc in addition to the current tree.
63 d944f764 2007-11-05 rsc incorporates changes from the master repository
64 d944f764 2007-11-05 rsc into the local revision history.
67 d944f764 2007-11-05 rsc flag applies these changes to the current file tree.
73 d944f764 2007-11-05 rsc to compare the files in the local tree with the corresponding
74 d944f764 2007-11-05 rsc files in the revision history.
75 d944f764 2007-11-05 rsc By default it compares against the version that was most recently
76 d944f764 2007-11-05 rsc incorporated into the local tree.
79 d944f764 2007-11-05 rsc flag specifies an alternate version to compare against.
80 d944f764 2007-11-05 rsc The special revision
82 d944f764 2007-11-05 rsc refers to the most recent version on the server.
86 d944f764 2007-11-05 rsc starts an HTTP server serving information about
87 d944f764 2007-11-05 rsc the local repository at the address
88 d944f764 2007-11-05 rsc .BR http://localhost:8000/ .
92 d944f764 2007-11-05 rsc starts an interactive history viewer.
94 d944f764 2007-11-05 rsc The Mercurial tree can be inspected on the web at
95 d944f764 2007-11-05 rsc .HR http://hg.pdos.csail.mit.edu/hg/plan9/ "" .
99 d944f764 2007-11-05 rsc directory containing Mercurial local repository
101 d944f764 2007-11-05 rsc .B .hgignore
102 d944f764 2007-11-05 rsc list of files and wildcards to exclude from Mercurial operations
103 d944f764 2007-11-05 rsc .SH SEE ALSO
107 d944f764 2007-11-05 rsc \fIhg\fR(1),
108 d944f764 2007-11-05 rsc .HR http://www.selenic.com/mercurial/wiki/
110 d944f764 2007-11-05 rsc .HR http://hg.pdos.csail.mit.edu/hg/plan9/
112 d944f764 2007-11-05 rsc The use of Mercurial for accessing Plan 9 from User Space
113 d944f764 2007-11-05 rsc should be considered experimental.
114 d944f764 2007-11-05 rsc People uncomfortable with Mercurial should continue to use
115 d944f764 2007-11-05 rsc .IR cvs (1).