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 Setting up Mercurial in your home directory:
 
  Note: Debian fails to include bits of distutils, you'll need
  python-dev to install. Alternately, shove everything somewhere in
  your path.
 
  $ tar xvzf mercurial-<ver>.tar.gz
  $ cd mercurial-<ver>
  $ python2.3 setup.py install --home ~
  $ export PYTHONPATH=${HOME}/lib/python  # add this to your .bashrc
  $ export HGMERGE=tkmerge                # customize this
  $ hg                                    # test installation, show help
 
  If you get complaints about missing modules, you probably haven't set
  PYTHONPATH correctly.
 
 Setting up a Mercurial project:
 
  $ cd linux/
  $ hg init         # creates .hg
  $ hg status       # show changes between repo and working dir
  $ hg diff         # generate a unidiff
- $ hg export       # export a changeset as a diff
  $ hg addremove    # add all unknown files and remove all missing files
  $ hg commit       # commit all changes, edit changelog entry
+ $ hg export       # export a changeset as a diff
 
  Mercurial will look for a file named .hgignore in the root of your
  repository contains a set of regular expressions to ignore in file
  paths.
 
 Mercurial commands:
 
  $ hg history          # show changesets
  $ hg log Makefile     # show commits per file
  $ hg checkout         # check out the tip revision
- $ hg checkout <hash>  # check out a specified changeset
+ $ hg checkout <id>    # check out a specified changeset
+                       # IDs can be tags, revision numbers, or unique
+                       # subsets of changeset hash numbers
  $ hg add foo          # add a new file for the next commit
  $ hg remove bar       # mark a file as removed
  $ hg verify           # check repo integrity
  $ hg tags             # show current tags
  $ hg annotate [files] # show changeset numbers for each file line
- $ hg blame [files]    # show commit users for each file line
 
 Branching and merging:
 
  $ cd ..
  $ mkdir linux-work
  $ cd linux-work
  $ hg branch ../linux        # create a new branch
  $ hg checkout               # populate the working directory
  $ <make changes>
  $ hg commit
  $ cd ../linux
  $ hg merge ../linux-work    # pull changesets from linux-work
 
 Importing patches:
 
  Fast:
  $ patch < ../p/foo.patch
  $ hg addremove
  $ hg commit
 
  Faster:
  $ patch < ../p/foo.patch
  $ hg commit `lsdiff -p1 ../p/foo.patch`
 
  Fastest:
  $ cat ../p/patchlist | xargs hg import -p1 -b ../p 
 
 Network support:
 
- The simple way:
-
  # pull the self-hosting hg repo
  foo$ hg init
  foo$ hg merge http://selenic.com/hg/
  foo$ hg checkout  # hg co works too
 
- # export your .hg directory as a directory on your webserver
- foo$ ln -s .hg ~/public_html/hg-linux 
+ # export your current repo via HTTP with browsable interface
+ foo$ hg serve -n "My repo" -p 80
 
  # merge changes from a remote machine
- bar$ hg merge http://foo/~user/hg-linux
-
- The new, fast, experimental way:
-
- # pull the self-hosting hg repo
- foo$ hg init
- foo$ hg merge hg://selenic.com/hg/
- foo$ hg checkout  # hg co works too
+ bar$ hg merge hg://foo/
+ bar$ hg co        # checkout the result
 
- # Set up the CGI server on your webserver
- foo$ ln -s .hg ~/public_html/hg-linux/.hg
- foo$ cp hgweb.py ~/public_html/hg-linux/index.cgi
+ # Set up a CGI server on your webserver
+ foo$ cp hgweb.cgi ~/public_html/hg-linux/index.cgi
+ foo$ emacs ~/public_html/hg-linux/index.cgi # adjust the defaults
 
- # merge changes from a remote machine
- bar$ hg merge hg://foo/~user/hg-linux
-
- Another approach which does perform well right now is to use rsync.
- Simply rsync the remote repo to a read-only local copy and then do a
- local pull.
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