On Feb 17, 2011, at 12:45 PM, pbreit wrote: > I just started using a fantastic, free Mercurial client for Mac: MacHG > (http://jasonfharris.com/machg/). Definitely watch the video. > > It prompted me to really encourage anyone who is thinking about using version > control to go ahead and do it. It is a great idea even for one developer > working on a small project. It's much easier than it may appear to be. > > My current setup is that I have a private project hosted for free on > Bitbucket. I clone it to my Mac and do all of my editing in TextMate. Then I > first clone the project on to my Ubuntu server at RackSpace Cloud. When I > have done some development and want to roll it out, I ssh to my server and > "hg pull; hg update". I have gone one step further and started to use Fabric > so that I can issue the pull requests from my Mac terminal. > > I really encourage this approach for anyone who is even slightly considering > it.
Thanks for the tip. I've been using Murky, another Mac hg client. It works fine, but MacHG looks somewhat more ambitious. One of the nice things about Mercurial is that it works fine with a local repository; no need to set up a remote one when all you need is a local history of a project.
