The difference is in the publication process: a CVCS (Centralized) means: to see the work of your colleague, you must wait for them to publish (commit) to the central repository. Then you can update your workspace. You are an active producer: if you don’t publish anything, nobody sees anything. You are a passive consumer: you … Read more
The page at http://wiki.debuntu.org/wiki/OpenSSL#Retrieving_certificate_informations lists the command lines for that (and printing out the relevant information). From that page and some of the man pages, it seems like what you want is (for bash): openssl s_client -connect <host>:<port> < /dev/null 2>/dev/null | openssl x509 -fingerprint -noout -in /dev/stdin If you want the whole certificate, leave … Read more
Using a file template is definitely the best solution. For example, if you have a database.ini file, commit a database.ini.template file and ignore database.ini in .hgignore
On the one hand, SVN integration (with IDE, frameworks, wikis, …) is very mature, as well as its GUIs and code browsers (even though DVCS like Git and Mercurial progress every day). On the other hand, introducing a DVCS in an Enterprise environment is still not a trivial task: Some requirements are not easily met … Read more
Here’s what I’d do: Make default your “mainline” branch. The tip of this branch is the “currently released to the public” version of your code. Critical bugfixes can be committed directly to this branch and merged into development branches. To start working on version 2.0, make a 2.0-dev branch. Commit changes for 2.0 to that … Read more
It’s been almost 2 years since I originally posed this question. I’d do it differently now (as I mentioned in a comment above the question above). What I’d do now would be to instead commit my changes to the one file in my local repo (you can use the hg record extension to only commit … Read more
I just had to install a fresh Mercurial instance yesterday, here’s updated instructions for 1.7: Install Mercurial (these instructions were tested with 1.7) Install Python (for Mercurial 1.7, you must use the x86 version of Python 2.6.6) You will need to download the hgweb.cgi file from the Mercurial source. You can download the source by … Read more
Update your repository to the head with the revision that you want to forget about, then use hg commit –close-branch to mark that (anonymous) branch as closed. Then update to the head of the branch that you do want, and continue working. You can still see the closed branch if you use the -c option … Read more
Update: Mercurial has added –amend which should be the preferred option now. You can rollback the last commit (but only the last one) with hg rollback and then reapply it. Important: this permanently removes the latest commit (or pull). So if you’ve done a hg update that commit is no longer in your working directory … Read more
Git is very fast, scales very well, and is very transparent about its concepts. The down side of this is that it has a relatively steep learning curve. A Win32 port is available, but not quite a first-class citizen. Git exposes hashes as version numbers to users; this provides guarantees (in that a single hash … Read more