Posted by Scott Anderson in Development, LinuxJan 20th, 2010 | 2 Comments
So I’ve finally decided to make the switch to a distributed source control system. The benefits are well-documented, and I’ve grown weary of Subversion. After some research, I decided Mercurial would be best for me. Since I have OCD, and I wanted to push via HTTP to my remote repository, I did some homework and figured out how to get everything running on my VPS. If you’d like to see how I did it, read on.
Step 1: Prerequisites
Since my VPS runs Ubuntu Linux 9.10, there are a few packages to install before we get started. Run the following command to...