Using Mercurial on SourceForge

May 20, 2008 by Isaac

Lately I've been working on resurrecting a project, called Kollektor, that I have on SourceForge. Kollektor is a personal book collection manager that can fetch information from Amazon. It's been a few years since I worked on it and in the mean time the Amazon interface has changed significantly. A couple days ago I also started a new project called Mr. Morse.

With both of these programs I want to try a distributed version control system. I've used CVS, Subversion, and Perforce for years, but this talk by Linus Torvalds convinced me to try something different.

Since SourceForge natively supports CVS and Subversion it is necessary to install a distributed version control system, such as Mercurial. This article explains the steps necessary to perform the installation of Mercurial on SourceForge.

Keep an eye on my projects and good luck setting up your own distributed source control system.

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