confused

[Michael Mossey]

Seems like BitBucket was misleading me in warning not to push to an 
existing repo. As far as I can tell, that's what I'm supposed to do. 
Experimenting with this now. I'm also using TortoiseHg which stores 
certain information to use as defaults, so some of the operations look a 
bit different depending on whether I'm using the 'hg' command line, or 
TortoiseHg.

Seems like I have to use a combination of 'pull' and 'update' to get a 
local machine sync'd with BitBucket.
Mike

On 1/24/2014 8:52 PM, Michael Mossey wrote:
> Hello,
> I'm trying to understand a basic task in Mercurial, but I'm having a 
> hard time making sense of the documentation. I don't have any 
> familiarity with version control systems and it seems like there isn't 
> really any terminology explained from first principles, and my 
> question is a little too complex to get relevant hits on Google.
>
> I have a desktop and a laptop, and sometimes I work on the desktop and 
> sometimes on the laptop. I just want to move changes from one computer 
> to the other using Bitbucket to make the transfer.
>
> I created a repository on my desktop. I followed the directions on 
> Bitbucket to push the repository into an empty repository on 
> Bitbucket. There was a warning that this would overwrite any existing 
> data. That's fine because this is the first time I moved the code into 
> Bitbucket.
>
> I made some changes to the code on the desktop. now I want to get the 
> changes into Bitbucket. Is this a "push," "pull," "pull request," or 
> something else? I don't want to "push" because of the warning that it 
> would erase any existing data, yet I can't seem to figure out what 
> else it would be.
>
> Then I want to download the changes from Bitbucket to my laptop. Is 
> this a pull? Do I have to clone the bitbucket repo first? Is this an 
> "update"?
>
> Thanks,
> Mike
>