Fri, 05 Mar 2010

An Update on Mercurial Updates

I recently whined about my inability to discover how to keep up to date with Mercurial. And the fine denizens of the intarwebs came—partly at least—to the rescue. I now know how to grab the latest release and have successfully installed it on the seven different systems I cared about.

Even better, I also know how to clone the mercurial-stable repository (and, obviously, how to grab updates when I want them). For the benefit of others who may have the same question:

    hg clone http://selenic.com/repo/hg-stable

That will create a clone of the stable branch and put it in a directory called ./hg-stable. Then it’s a matter of doing hg incoming in that directory to see if there are any updates, followed by hg pull and hg update to get them into the working directory tree.

There’s still one little imperfection: I have not yet found any source of announcements about new releases or even important updates. I suppose I’ll survive without that, although it is nice to receive a notice when there’s an important fix available. And I can always setup a cron job to let me know if there are updates to consider.

Anyway, thanks intarwebs, you rock.

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