Mercurial on Site5
From Julian Yap
Site5 provides Mercurial access via SSH. These are my notes on getting it working and basic usage. Mercurial is a fast, lightweight Source Control Management system designed for efficient handling of very large distributed projects. I use for most of my latest projects.
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Prerequisites and Site5 specific information
- Request to Site5 support that they add you to the 'trusted' group. This will allow you to use programs such as wget and especially gcc.
- Request to Site5 support that they change your default shell to Bash.
Download and unpack Mercurial
Download the latest version of Mercurial.
$ export VERSION=1.4.2 $ wget http://www.selenic.com/mercurial/release/mercurial-$VERSION.tar.gz
Unpack the source
$ tar zxvf mercurial-$VERSION.tar.gz $ cd mercurial-$VERSION/
Install in your home directory
This will install to ~/bin and ~/lib directories.
$ python setup.py install --home=~
Add these lines to your ~/.bashrc file:
export PYTHONPATH=${HOME}/lib/python
export PATH=${HOME}/bin:$PATH
Testing the new install
$ hg
