"Ben Finney" <ben+pyt...@benfinney.id.au> wrote in message news:85y508roiw....@benfinney.id.au... > "Frank Millman" <fr...@chagford.com> writes: > >> I feel that I have just not grasped the basics yet, so any assistance >> that >> puts me on the right path is appreciated. > > Here is "Hg Init", a tutorial for Mercurial <URL:http://hginit.com/>. > > ("source control" is not the most common term for this; what we're > talking about is a "version control system", or VCS. But some Git users > may disagree.) >
Thanks, Ben, that is a really nice tutorial. I was calling it an SCM because that is how Mercurial describes it - from their home page "Mercurial is a free, distributed source managment control tool". I do agree that 'version control' makes more sense. Frank -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list