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.. Author : Primal Pappachan
   Internal Reviewer : Kiran Isukapatla
   Date: May 10 2012

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Hello friends and welcome to the tutorial on 'Version Control with Hg'

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At the end of this tutorial you will be able to

1. Understand what is Version Control.

#. Identify the need for using Version Control.

#. Install Mercurial.

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First, let's understand what 'Version Control' is. 

'Version control' is a way to track files over time and share them. 
This allows access to earlier versions of a file(s) if and when required. 
It therefore enables us to make changes to the content of a file, view it's 
change log and collaborate on a single piece of work with a team of people.
 
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Lets look at an example of home-brewed Version Control system.Version control 
is a way of backing up files, before making changes. Most people would have 
cooked up their own version control system. 

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Listing the files in the folder we observe that after a point of time it 
becomes difficult to maintain proper names for different versions of a file.

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Let's look at the various problems associated with this set-up.

1. Name and changes made are not related or linked.

#. Can't track sequence of changes made to a file.

#. Does not scale.

To overcome this problems there are more general purpose tools which can
do this task in an organized way.


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Now, let's move to identifying the needs for a 'Version Control System'.

We have seen that one of the main motivations to use a Version Control system 
is the ability to go back to a working version of a file, when something 
goes wrong. Below are a few more advantages of using an automated version 
control system.

1. By tracking the history of a project, any person may see the evolution
of a project.

2. Allows for effective collaboration on a project, as everything is shared.

3. Helps to identify which additions have broken down a project and thus 
aids in efficient tracking down of the bugs.

4. It is good for a one man show as it is for a big group of people working
on a project. 


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It is, in some ways, similar to playing a video game. We generally play games 
in stages. While playing, we save the game at some instances as per our choice. 
We continue playing, but we could, if necessary, choose to go back to one of the
saved states and start over. In this manner, we could change the state of 
the game.

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Some of the Version Control tools available and used widely are: cvs, svn, 
git and so on.

Each of these tools have their own merits and demerits. In this tutorial we 
shall learn how to use mercurial or hg.

Mercurial or hg is:

1. Easy to learn and use
    
#. Lightweight

#. Scales excellently

#. Written in Python

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Let's now get into Installation

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    $sudo apt-get install mercurial

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Type sudo apt-get install mercurial

Type hg  

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    $hg

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It will give you the list of basic commands.

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    $hg version

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and 'hg version' gives the version number of mercurial you are presently using.

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This brings us to the end of the tutorial. In this tutorial, we have
learnt:

1. What is Version Control.

#. Identify the need for using Version Control

#. Install Mercurial.

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Here are some self assessment questions for you to solve

1. Is Mercurial a Centralized VCS or Distributed Version Control System? 

#. How can you retrive the version of Mercurial installed?


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And the answers,

1. Mercurial is a Distributed Version Control system.

#. hg version

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Software Development techniques for Engineers and Scientists - SDES, is an 
initiative by FOSSEE. For more information, please visit the given link.

Free and Open-source Software for Science and Engineering Education - FOSSEE, is
based at IIT Bombay which is funded by MHRD as part of National Mission on 
Education through ICT.

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Watch the video available at the following link. It summarises the Spoken 
Tutorial project.If you do not have good bandwidth, you can download and 
watch it. 

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The Spoken Tutorial Project Team conducts workshops using spoken tutorials,
gives certificates to those who pass an online test.

For more details, contact contact@spoken-tutorial.org

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Spoken Tutorial Project is a part of the "Talk to a Teacher" project.
It is supported by the National Mission on Education through ICT, MHRD, 
Government of India. More information on this mission is available at the 
given link.

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Hope you have enjoyed this tutorial and found it useful.
Thank you