what do I need to learn to do this task?

[Dave S]

On May 12, 2014 11:08 PM, "Justinas Urbanavicius" <justinasu at gmail.com>
wrote:
>
> well each of repository is already a backup by itself,

That's true from a changeset perspective, but not from a crash perspective.

> and i don't think you have to learn anything special. hg serve command
shows you what ip/host your server is running on so you just need to write
it into your config.
>
> either way i think you are using mercurial as a backup tool more than a
version control, some people like to do commits, paranoiacally as often as
using save in word :)
> but i don't think it's a good practice, each commit should be meaningful,
a change that reflects something

And I vote for the middle ground.  Don't wait for "release-ready"; do
commit at least as often as natural breaks occur.  From the point of view
of being able to unwind mistakes, more ci beats less ci.

/dps
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