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"Rustom Mody" <rustompmody@gmail.com> wrote in message 
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> On Monday, March 17, 2014 6:36:33 PM UTC+5:30, Frank Millman wrote:
>> Hi all
>
>> I know I *should* be using a Source Control Management system, but at
>> present I am not. I tried to set up Mercurial a couple of years ago, but 
>> I
>> think I set it up wrongly, as I got myself confused and found it more of 
>> a
>> hindrance than a help. Now I am ready to try again, but I want to avoid 
>> my
>> earlier mistakes.
>
>
> Seen this??
> Yeah may not apply directly to your use-case buts seems worth a read
> https://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/gitworkflows.html
>
> [At command line
> $ git help -w workflows
> will give you the same
> ]

Thanks, Rustom, that was a very interesting read.

I have made a shortcut to it so that I can refer back to it as my 
understanding grows.

Frank