Mercurial vs Updated git HOWTO for kernel hackers

[Matt Mackall]

On Mon, Jun 27, 2005 at 08:31:18PM +0200, Pavel Machek wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> > > Things in git-land are moving at lightning speed, and usability has 
> > > improved a lot since my post a month ago:  http://lkml.org/lkml/2005/5/26/11
> > 
> > And here's a quick comparison with the current state of Mercurial..
> > 
> > > 1) installing git
> > > 
> > > git requires bootstrapping, since you must have git installed in order 
> > > to check out git.git (git repo), and linux-2.6.git (kernel repo).  I 
> > > have put together a bootstrap tarball of today's git repository.
> > > 
> > > Download tarball from:
> > > http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/jgarzik/git-20050622.tar.bz2
> > > 
> > > tarball build-deps:  zlib, libcurl, libcrypto (openssl)
> > > 
> > > install tarball:  unpack && make && sudo make prefix=/usr/local install
> > > 
> > > jgarzik helper scripts, not in official git distribution:
> > > http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/jgarzik/git-new-branch
> > > http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/jgarzik/git-changes-script
> > > 
> > > After reading the rest of this document, come back and update your copy 
> > > of git to the latest:
> > > rsync://rsync.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/git.git
> > 
> > Download from: http://selenic.com/mercurial/mercurial-snapshot.tar.gz
> > Build-deps: Python 2.3
> > Install: unpack && python setup.py install [--home=/usr/local]
> 
> Did that... (had to install python2.3-dev, first), but got...
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/usr/local/bin/hg", line 11, in ?
>     from mercurial import commands
> ImportError: No module named mercurial

>From the README:

 To install system-wide:

 $ python setup.py install   # change python to python2.3 if 2.2 is default

 To install in your home directory (~/bin and ~/lib, actually), run:

 $ python2.3 setup.py install --home=~
 $ export PYTHONPATH=${HOME}/lib/python  # add this to your .bashrc
 $ export PATH=${HOME}/bin:$PATH         # 

 And finally:

 $ hg                                    # test installation, show help

 If you get complaints about missing modules, you probably haven't set
 PYTHONPATH correctly.

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