what do I need to learn to do this task?

[Michael Mossey]

On 5/12/2014 10:25 PM, Justinas Urbanavicius wrote:
> you can push and pull between your laptop and your desktop, without 
> the bitbucket server. Although this won't eliminate long list of 
> commits it will prevent unfinished work to get out to the main server.
>
> you could try the following workflow
> mercurial has an integrated server just run hg serve
> in your repository on desktop .hg/hgrc define a path laptop = 
> http://your_laptop_ip:8000/
>
> do the same on your laptop, but at the path to your desktop = 
> http://your_desktop_ip:8000/
>
> when you want to switch to laptop from desktop commit changes and run 
> "hg push laptop" (the hg serve needs to be running, you can use hg 
> serve -b to run it in background, if you switch a lot, but not 
> recommended especially if you plan to work outside the office) and the 
> changes will be pushed to your repository on a laptop. the same goes 
> when switching back to desktop, i think you get the picture.
>
> if you run hg push (or hg push default) it will push to the main 
> server you cloned the repository from, so when you done your work and 
> ready to share with co worker just push to the main server.
>

But I want to use Bitbucket as a way of backing up changes, so I don't 
want to push and pull directly between the laptop and desktop. Also I 
don't want to get into Window LAN stuff--I don't understand it, and I 
have too much other important stuff to do than to learn Windows networking.

Mike