Mercurial Usage for FrontAccounting

In the text and bash commands herein, change version numbers and changesets as current ones at time of repo update. apmuthu

Install Mercurial

In Debian, install Mercurial thus:

  apt-get install mercurial

Make a folder for the repo:

  mkdir -p /var/lib/vz/Repos/Mercurial/FrontAc

Clone FA Repos

To clone the stable FA default branch (v2.3.x):

  cd /var/lib/vz/Repos/Mercurial/FrontAc
  hg clone http://frontaccounting.hg.sourceforge.net:8000/hgroot/frontaccounting/default
  cd default
  tar -czf ../FrontAc_default_Mer_`hg log -l 1 | grep "changeset:   " | cut -d":" -f2 | sed -e 's/^[ \t]*//'`_`date +%Y-%m-%d`.tar.gz . --exclude=.hg*
  cd ..

Mercurial Output:

  destination directory: default
  requesting all changes
  adding changesets
  adding manifests
  adding file changes
  added 3064 changesets with 12896 changes to 690 files (+1 heads)
  updating working directory
  629 files updated, 0 files merged, 0 files removed, 0 files unresolved

To clone the stable FA unstable branch (v2.4.x):

  cd /var/lib/vz/Repos/Mercurial/FrontAc
  hg clone http://frontaccounting.hg.sourceforge.net:8000/hgroot/frontaccounting/unstable
  cd unstable
  hg update -C unstable
  tar -czf ../FrontAc_unstable_Mer_`hg log -l 1 | grep "changeset:   " | cut -d":" -f2 | sed -e 's/^[ \t]*//'`_`date +%Y-%m-%d`.tar.gz . --exclude=.hg*
  cd ..

Mercurial Output:

  destination directory: unstable
  requesting all changes
  adding changesets
  adding manifests
  adding file changes
  added 3064 changesets with 12896 changes to 690 files (+1 heads)
  updating working directory
  629 files updated, 0 files merged, 0 files removed, 0 files unresolved

  # cd unstable
  # hg update -C unstable

  401 files updated, 0 files merged, 0 files removed, 0 files unresolved

Update Local FA Repos

Locally update the stable default branch (v2.3.x):

  cd /var/lib/vz/Repos/Mercurial/FrontAc/default
  hg pull -u
  tar -czf ../FrontAc_default_Mer_`hg log -l 1 | grep "changeset:   " | cut -d":" -f2 | sed -e 's/^[ \t]*//'`_`date +%Y-%m-%d`.tar.gz . --exclude=.hg*
  cd ..

Mercurial Output:

  pulling from http://frontaccounting.hg.sourceforge.net:8000/hgroot/frontaccounting/default
  searching for changes
  adding changesets
  adding manifests
  adding file changes
  added 5 changesets with 9 changes to 8 files
  8 files updated, 0 files merged, 0 files removed, 0 files unresolved

Locally update the unstable branch (v2.4.x):

  cd /var/lib/vz/Repos/Mercurial/FrontAc/unstable
  hg pull -u
  hg update -C unstable
  tar -czf ../FrontAc_unstable_Mer_`hg log -l 1 | grep "changeset:   " | cut -d":" -f2 | sed -e 's/^[ \t]*//'`_`date +%Y-%m-%d`.tar.gz . --exclude=.hg*
  cd ..

Mercurial Output:

  pulling from http://frontaccounting.hg.sourceforge.net:8000/hgroot/frontaccounting/unstable
  searching for changes
  adding changesets
  adding manifests
  adding file changes
  added 5 changesets with 9 changes to 8 files
  8 files updated, 0 files merged, 0 files removed, 0 files unresolved