What’s a Repository? It’s just Hg nomenclature for a folder on your computer (or on a network drive) that’s version controlled. In the new TortoiseHg submenu, click on “Create Repository Here”. You’ll notice that TortoiseHg has added a new submenu to your context menu:
TORTOISEHG PUSH AND PULL FROM COMMAND LINE INSTALL
In fact, it comes bundled with Mercurial, so you only have to install one program.įirst, I created a new Folder on my desktop called My New Repository: I’ll assume you’ve downloaded TortoiseHg and installed it. Hg also sports integration into popular IDEs. I’ll show you TortoiseHg, a popular Windows shell that lets you manage your versioned files inside of a normal Windows Explorer window. By default it runs from the command line, but you never have to do that. The best comparison I’ve heard is that Hg is like James Bond and Git is like MacGyver. This is great if you work from a laptop with limited connectivity, which is why I think it’s perfect for automation professionals. Distributed means you don’t need a connection to the server all the time, so you can work offline. There are currently two “distributed version control systems”, or DVCS, vying for supremacy: Hg and Git.
TORTOISEHG PUSH AND PULL FROM COMMAND LINE PC
Did I mention it’s the favourite tool of PC programmers? Did I mention PC programmers don’t like to pay for stuff? They write their own tools and release them online as open source. So are all of the best version control systems actually. It’s called “Mercurial” and always pronounced that way, but it’s frequently referred to by the acronym “Hg”, referring to the element “Mercury” in the periodic table. I decided since most of you are in the automation industry, I’d give you a brief introduction to my favourite version control system: Mercurial. Version control is great for team collaboration, but most individual programmers working on a project use it just for themselves. Even most PC programmers shun version control at first, until someone demonstrates it for them, and then they’re hooked. There’s a tool in the PC programming world that nobody would live without, but almost nobody in the PLC or Automation World uses: version control systems.
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