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This blog post will show you how to use geocommit in your projects. It shows how to install the Chrome and Firefox extensions to add support for geocommit to github.com and bitbucket.org

If you want to review remote changes from Mercurial offline you cannot use hg incoming. For sure there is a nice way to do it. So here is what I do to get changes from a repository to review them later without pulling them into my repo before reviewing. It also has the advantage …

Bookmarks is an extension to the Mercurial SCM, which adds git-like branches to Mercurial. The extension is distributed together with Mercurial.
Recently the extension has received a major update. Time to look back.

This is a series of blogposts that consists of three parts:

(1) Part I: History of Bookmarks
(2) Part …

Here are the slide from my Advanced Git talk:

Advanced GitView more presentations from segv.

I really enjoy giving talks. This is particularly because I like to teach people something and because I’m really enthusiastic about the technical things I talk about. Once of these things are obviously decentralized version control system, in particular Git and Mercurial. Finally after two years of submitting talks to various conferences, people and …

Using a decentralized version control system (DVCS) like Mercurial (hg) or Git as a client for Subversion is very common. With the unique features of a DVCS a developer can have both the features of offline development and local branching while still being able to push to a subversion server. This approach is often …

For those of you, who didn’t notice so far, in the last 6 month we worked on a more userfriendly and accessible page than the current mercurial website. Three weeks ago we launched hg-scm.org which is quite similar to git-scm.org. I hope you enjoy it

Interacting between git and subversion is quite common. The git command git-svn can be used to import existing subversion repositories into git and commit synchronize commits between two repositories. While importing a subversion repository into git is common, importing an git repository into subversion is quite unusual. There are various tools to do so, …

I remember the days when I started learning Git about two years ago. I crawled through all the available commands and read the man pages what they are for and I remember when I stumbled over rebase and stuck. After figuring out what it actually does, I start loving it, but didn’t understand it’s …

Okay, this is one of the posts I wanted to since about 1 year, but now, nearly 2 years after the first git vs. Mercurial blog post I finally made it to actually write a second time about this topic. A first notice: I won’t cover bazaar. I personally hate it with passion and …