Mercurial with TortoiseHG: The Basics [Video]

Last Thursday I was hyped on having my own video tutorial. I got a lot of things in mind and felt I need to share some of them. One of the very needed solutions for most web designers and web developers is version control. VCS or version control systems (some call it revision control) is an application to manage the changes of your files (css, xhtml, php, py, etc).

There are a lot VCS out there. The most famous is Subversion. I don't use it because it's evil (said by Linus), hehe. Other one is Git, reeeeeeally really famous maybe because of github and the linux kernel. Why the heck I chose Mercurial? It's because of TortoiseHG, the windows support, development, and releases is always moving forward. It also has a very good implementation of the user interface, it is not perfect, but it is so much usable than the other ones I tried. That's for my quick intro (I actually forgot to talk about these in making the video, hehe).  

Here it is, my very first video tutorial!

I know my tutorial is kinda noobish but I'll definitely do better next time. I hope you'll find this useful! ;D

Update

I made another tutorial on Installing TortoiseHG in Ubuntu. Watch it here.

6 comments

Mar 20, 2010
Andrew Abogado said...
Now this is what I've been waiting for. Thanks you for this Mon.
Mar 20, 2010
No problem drew. Your welcome. Maybe I'll do an Ubuntu version of this. ;D
Apr 05, 2010
Andrew Abogado said...
I'll definitely wait for that Ubuntu tut. But I'm roaming around the net for an Ubuntu tut. Will share if I can find one.
Apr 05, 2010
Andrew Abogado said...
Now that I found a GUI for Ubuntu through this tutorial, http://tinyurl.com/mercurial-ubuntu-gui , I can now follow your tut. Thanks Mon.
Apr 11, 2010
Brian Temecula said...
Thanks for the video. I have never used a VCS before, and I want to learn quickly, but the documentation is hard to understand. I hope you will do more videos of TortoiseHg. For instance, learning what a Fork is, how to work with other people, etc.
Apr 21, 2010
George Tujan said...
Nice one Mon! thanks

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