This is a presentation that I made for Experian Tech Talk in August 2012. It covers basic introduction to DVCS using Mercurial / TortoiseHg as example.

1. Introduction to
Distributed VCS with
Mercurial

2. Topics
O What is DVCS?
O Why DVCS?
O DVCS Specials
O Walkthrough with Mercurial

3. What is DVCS?
O Repositories everywhere

4. Traditional Centralized VCS

5. Distributed VCS

6. DVCS Example
O Git
O Mercurial

7. Why DVCS?
O Own local repositories!
O Faster commits
O You’re in control!
O Share with others when you want to.

8. Why DVCS?
O Flexibility for Different Workflows
O Different repositories, different purpose

9. Simple Workflow
Stable
Development
Prototype

10. Multi-user workflow

11. Complex Development
Workflow!
Ahmad
QA Team Dev Team
1 1
Boon
RTM Beta Main
Charles
QA Team Dev Team
2 2
Daisy

12. Why DVCS?
O Merging is easier
O Each revision knows its parent(s)
O Three-way merge with common ancestor

13. Why DVCS?
O Own local repositories!
O Flexibility for Different Workflows
O Easier merging

14. World Domination

15. DVCS Specials

16. Terms
O Clone a repo.
Main
Clone Dev
(Main clone)

17. Terms
O Pull commits from a repo.
Main Pull Dev

18. Terms
O Push commits to a repo.
Main Push Dev

19. Terms
O Working Directory - “The changeset I’m
about to commit"

20. Terms
O Update to travel through time!

21. Terms
O Commit creates a revision in repository.

22. Walkthrough
Time to Walk the Talk!
with TortoiseHg / Mercurial

23. One Last Thing…

24. Forking?
O Cloning in the Cloud
O Allow changesets to be sent to
repositories owned by other people

25. Q&A

26. Brain Teaser
O Push/Pull changesets to unrelated
repositories?

27. References
O http://hginit.com/
O http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/
O Mercurial: The Definitive Guide

28. The End
Thank You
And Go, Start Forking!