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How to migrate from darcs to Mercurial or git

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Converting a Mercurial tree repeatedly with files removed

Here's a useful little tip if you need to use hg convert to generate a stripped-down copy of a Mercurial repository. For instance, maybe we have a tree that someone committed a large file to by accident, or perhaps someone
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Mercurial book is now in production, and a little gift

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Mercurial: The Definitive Guide

If you’ve looked at the Mercurial book site in the past 24 hours, you’ll have noticed that both its look and the name of the book have changed. First, the cosmetic news. The change in appearance is due to my
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OSCON 2006: Come see me talk

I’m giving a talk at OSCON in Portland this week; the title is “Painless maintenance of local changes to fast-moving software”. The content is about how managing and developing patches with Mercurial Queues will make you a happier person and
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Been a busy month

Couple my usual reluctance to post here with work on a new all-consuming project, and you have a recipe for potentially long periods of silence. Yesterday, I posted an announcement of the availability of the first chapter of the Mercurial
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The joint Mercurial / Bazaar-NG sprint: aftermath

The weekend in London, now almost a week past, was sufficiently intense that I didn’t have the energy to write it up as I went along, or indeed to write much of anything about it until now. Of course we
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Baypiggies talk, tomorrow, June 8

I’m giving a talk on Mercurial at Baypiggies, the San Francisco Bay Area Python user’s group, tomorrow evening at 7:30pm. If you’re a local Mercurial user and we haven’t met, please feel free to come along. If you don’t use
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Joint Mercurial / Bazaar-NG sprint

A few weeks ago, Mark Shuttleworth showed up on IRC, and invited several core developers from the Mercurial and Bazaar-NG to visit London, on Canonical, Ltd’s shilling. The purpose of the joint visit is to discuss possible points of collaboration
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Mercurial: I am just going outside and may be some time

Here follows the text of a message I posted to the Mercurial mailing list earlier today. As I mentioned the other day, I will not be contributing to Mercurial development for a while. Several people have asked me why. At
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