Changing username in google code mercurial commit

Disclaimer: This kind of trickery can easily break your repository and totally annoy your collaborators. So take backups, butter up your friends, and consider yourself warned.. I take no responsibility for your issues should anything go wrong, and in fact this message will self-destruct in 10 seconds.. Anyway, the main point is just to document […]

moving to eclipse + mercurial errors

ok so i decided to try once again to move to eclipse from my 10 years of intellij. it seems like a better experience not, perhaps due to my numerous attemps before and the added “features” that spam my code in intellij with the latest versions. so i had to integrate with my mercurial repository. […]

using mercurial

i wanted to move my stuff from github to a googlecode mercurial hostinrg. github seems to have a nice way to download the code as a .zip file so i take that, unzip it and then what? cd <projectdir-unzipped> hg init hg add (the add seems to automatically recurse everything) hg commit hs push <repository-address> […]

mercurial install

there is a guide on the mercurial website http://mercurial.selenic.com/guide/ but it seems a bit vague on topics such as is the mercurial.ini file supposed to be there when i run the installer or should i create it. this one seems to also provide some useful info http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/WindowsInstall now, i install kdiff3 as instructed from http://kdiff3.sourceforge.net/ […]

git me this, git me that, or mercurial

after trying out git with github for quite a while now, it still confuses me and it also seems that the windows integration is not so nice. probably i just do not apprechiate all the fancy things it has. still, the speed of it and the local repository access are very nice. trying the […]