Mercurial

Mercurial is an SCM written in Python that has a number of interesting features.

Resources:

Date Link Notes
2009 CuteHg

An even nicer graphical front-end.

Hg-Git mercurial plugin

A brilliant, pure Python implementation of git that lets you work on git repositories without installing git at all.

InDefero

A Google Code clone with git and Mercurial support. Regrettably, it is written in PHP, but should nevertheless be useful for internal deployments.

Mercurial-easy

A very nice curses front-end

2007 Getting hg viewi to work in Mac OS X
tailor

a tool to migrate changesets across different SCMs

TortoiseHg

a Windows Explorer extension (requires the Win32 Python install and PyGTK)

Notes:

My .hgignore file:

syntax: glob
*.log
*.log.?
*.log.??
*.pyc
*.pyo
.*.swp
*~ 
.DS_Store
._*

Updating a local instance upon push/pull (once used to publish this entire site):

$ cat space/.hg/hgrc 
[hooks]
changegroup = hg update  

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