On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 10:35 AM, Adrian Buehlmann <[email protected]> wrote: > On 10.09.2009 17:08, Steve Borho wrote: >> On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 9:32 AM, Chris Withers <[email protected]> >> wrote: >>> Adrian Buehlmann wrote: > ... >>>> If you have Gtk+ and PyGtk innstalled, you probably might even >>>> be able to run from source: >>> Do I really want to tempt fate? >>> >>> Okay, installed gtk+ bundle 2.16.5-20090731_win32.zip and >>> pygtk-2.12.1-3.win32-py2.5.exe... >>> >>>> hg clone http://bitbucket.org/tortoisehg/stable/ thg-stable >>>> cd thg-stable >>>> hg up stable >>> I'm a hg newbie, why on earth do I have to do this having just cloned?! > > Cool, welcome! (in response to telling us that you are new to hg) > > (sorry that TortoiseHg didn't work out of the box for you) > >> When you clone, hg checks out the 'default' branch. Unless you like >> living on our cutting edge, it's best to switch to the stable branch. > > The "stable" in the url http://bitbucket.org/tortoisehg/stable probably > adds to the confusion... > > Historically, that url contained really only the stable line of development. > Then we (ok, rather Steve :) decided to ditch the then separate "unstable" > repo > in bitbucket, and to use one combined repo for both lines, by employing > mercurial's named branches feature (the driving factor was dogfooding > named branches). > > The "unstable" (or main) line of development lives in the named branch > "default". That branch name exists by default in every hg repo > (see 'hg help branch'). Its name is omitted in 'hg log' output. > > The "stable" line of development (bugfixes of last major release) > lives in the named branch with the name "stable" (by decision of the thg > project). > > Switching between the two in a repo can be done with > > hg update stable > hg update default
At some point the repo URL will change to something like: http://bitbucket.org/tortoisehg/thg The current URL is "out in the wild" so we cannot change it until Bitbucket can redirect requests to the new repository name. I'm waiting on Bitbucket to grow that feature. -- Steve Borho ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july _______________________________________________ Tortoisehg-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/tortoisehg-discuss
