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Subject: Re: Question about Source Control
From: Andriy Kornatskyy <andriy.kornatskyy@live.com>
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Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2014 15:25:30 +0200
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Frank,

I would suggest start with an account on https://bitbucket.org. It =
supports private repositories so you should be good there.

=46rom other hand you can setup own infrastructure for SCM, read more =
here:
http://mindref.blogspot.com/2013/10/how-to-manage-git-or-mercurial.html=20=


Thanks.

Andriy Kornatskyy

On Mar 17, 2014, at 3:06 PM, Frank Millman <frank@chagford.com> wrote:

> Hi all
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> I know I *should* be using a Source Control Management system, but at=20=

> present I am not. I tried to set up Mercurial a couple of years ago, =
but I=20
> think I set it up wrongly, as I got myself confused and found it more =
of a=20
> hindrance than a help. Now I am ready to try again, but I want to =
avoid my=20
> earlier mistakes.
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> I understand the concept, and I understand the importance, so I do not =
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> reminding of those. What I would like help with is the basic setup. I =
could=20
> subscribe to the Mercurial mailing list and ask there, but I am hoping =
for a=20
> kick-start here. Here is my setup.
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> All my source code resides on an old Linux server, which I switch on =
in the=20
> morning and switch off at night, but otherwise hardly ever look at. It =
uses=20
> 'samba' to allow sharing with Windows, and 'nfs' to allow sharing with =
other=20
> Linux machines.
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> I need to test my program on Windows and on Linux, so I run it from =
both at=20
> various times. On Windows I have a 'mapped drive' pointing to the =
source=20
> code. On Linux I use a third machine, running a recent Fedora, using =
nfs to=20
> mount a directory pointing to the source code. Obviously each machine =
has=20
> its own version of Python installed.
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> I do my development on the Windows machine. I use TextPad, a simple =
text=20
> editor, which works fine for my purposes. It uses the mapped drive to =
point=20
> to the source code.
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> So where should I install the SCM, and how should I set it up so that =
I can=20
> access the latest version from any machine?
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> Any hints will be appreciated.
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> Frank Millman
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