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Using HgInit to learn git

I've read over HgInit and basically understand it, but most of the repos I work with use Git, and I'm rather new to both systems so my mind is malleable. I basically want to repurp …
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Yet another newbie question on the workflow in the hginit tutorial

I'm a little confused at the technical details of the workflow. Assuming that on the last workflow picture in http://hginit.com/05.html all (parent) repositories are living in a di …
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HgInit - Cloning/Tagging - When does the tag Version-1.1 get pushed to the central repo?

I'm going through the HgInit quick start and have bumped into a scenario that I haven't been able to resolve yet, but is one that we need to use. The page in question is here: http …
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Bug: hginit.com: Extra ‘hg commit’ in merging section.

There's an extra commit in http://hginit.com/04.html Directly after 'I need to merge.' there's a command-prompt box that shows 'hg merge' followed by 'hg commit -m merge', but the …
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hginit.com home page appears blank

I visited hginit.com home page a few months ago but found it blank. Today I visited again and noticed that the mouse turns into a hand at some places and clicked and was able to f …
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hginit question

I've been reading hginit.com and I had a very specific question about the workflow. Somewhere halfway the article on Repository Architecture, I read ...and get the repository …
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Russian translation of hginit.com tutorial. Interested?

I've just finished translation of hginit.com tutorial to Russian and published it on a popular Russian site for IT people (habrahabr.ru, last part is here) Does Joel or Kiln team …
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How to push fixes from dev to stable?

In his great tutorial, Joel explains the hot fix workflow based on the idea that "Whenever you need to make an urgent bug fix, you do it in stable." In my team, we currently do it …
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Can I replace “subversion” with “cvs” in the hg tutorial?

When reading Joel's awesome HgInit: Subversion Re-education tutorial, can I just pretend that Subversion is equal to CVS while reading it through? I've never used Subversion, so I …
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What’s special about “hg log -P .” (hginit.com typo?)

http://hginit.com/04.html has this: Wondering what just arrived? The hg log -P . command is a handy way to find out. C:\Users\joel\recipes> hg log -P . changeset: 9:44aefde …
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HgInit is great, but is there a version of the same thing, but using TortoiseHg for examples instead of the command line?

Readng through Joel's HgInit is a great way to understand Mercurial and how it works, but most of our team are rather skitish when it comes to the command line. Is there a version …
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hginit license?

Thanks for the wonderful tutorial. I like the way images and drawings are used -- they are very pleasant to use. Can I use them in my own projects? What is the license?
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hginit.com shows hg merge committing a CL, is this a typo?

http://hginit.com/04.html (the section on merging) is confusing me. One of the examples shows hg merge followed by hg log and the first CL in the log is the new merge CL. It then g …
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Bug: HgInit.com is not setting the character set for the webpages it is serving [closed]

Not sure where to report this or if you care but I thought I'd point it out. The pages served on HgInit.com do not state what character set they use. This means they can show up w …
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Possible typo on hginit.com?

On this page: http://hginit.com/04.html in Joel's Command Prompt, it says: C:\Users\joel\recipes> hg merge merging guac 0 files updated, 1 files merged, 0 files removed, 0 files …

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