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Mercurial (aka hg) V4L/DVB tree

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New v4l/dvb Mercurial tree <a href=http://linuxtv.org/hg/v4l-dvb>available</a>, replacing CVS.
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Dear V4L/DVB guys,
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We are proud to announce that we are doing some important steps to improve v4l/dvb development. Currently, the projects use a very old SCM (Source Configuration Management), based on RCS files (CVS).
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Although it was good in the past, now newer concepts were introduced to SCM that allows better models of development. It brings several advantages over CVS like:
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<li>Capable of being decentralized. Each developer may have its own local copy, with local commits;
</li><li>Atomic commits. on rcs based systems, you have a separate control for each file, not for the patchset. On newer SCMs, the patchset is stored as an unique unit;
</li><li>Better handling for conflict resolution;
</li><li>Commit undo
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And others. For a better description of Mercurial, you should look at
<a href=http://www.selenic.com/mercurial/>Mercurial page</a>. They have also an IRC channel on
freenode (<a href=irc://irc.freenode.net/#mercurial>#mercurial</a>).
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From now, cvs access are marked as not to be used, since hg is available. You can retrieve hg via:
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<a href=http://linuxtv.org/hg/v4l-dvb>http://linuxtv.org/hg/v4l-dvb</a>
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The same URL is used for both web view of the tree and web access.
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With Mercurial, to retrieve a dynamic generated tarball from latest stuff (as well as for any part of the tree). To get the tarball of the latest version you can do:
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<li>Open http://linuxtv.org/hg/v4l-dvb on your favorite browser;
</li><li>go to Tips line and click on it;
</li><li>It will open a view of current tags. Click on manifest at the tip line;
</li><li>A tree graph will be showed. You will see near the top an option to get a <gz> or <bz2>. Click on one of these and you will receive a tarball with the latest version.
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To install mercurial, some distros already have it. If not available, you can <a 
href=http://www.selenic.com/mercurial/wiki/index.cgi/BinaryPackages>download a binary 
version</a> or <a href=http://www.selenic.com/mercurial/wiki/index.cgi/Download> retrieve a 
source file</a>.

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The source file URL contains some instructions to install it. Basically:
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extract the tarball;
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cd mercurial*
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perl setup.py install
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python-2.3 or upper is required.
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After having mercurial installed:
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hg clone http://linuxtv.org/hg/v4l-dvb
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This will create a new dir, called v4l-dvb, and put all stuff there.
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To update to the latest version on tree (inside v4l-dvb dir):
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make update
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(this is an alias for hg pull -u http://linuxtv.org/hg/v4l-dvb)
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There is a readme file at v4l-dvb called README.HG that contains some basic instructions for people that wants to generate new patches.
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Cheers,<br>
Mauro.
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