Nov 25th 2008 My Mercurial Setup (Plus Some Useful Shims and Jigs)
In his book, The Productive Programmer, Neal Ford talks about using shims or jigs to help productivity. Jigs and shims are quickly created little snippets of code that automate repetitive tasks or make them easy enough that they’re worth doing. They’re little tools that help make your job easier and let you avoid using brute force to solve all of your problems.
My home directory has a bin folder in it that’s continually getting new jigs added to it, and my zshrc file is an ever-expanding list of quick shell functions.
Recently, I’ve been doing a lot more work with Mercurial as the team that I’m on switched from Subversion a couple of months ago on our Grails project. The initial transition was a little difficult for some people, but I think just about everyone is pretty happy with the transition now that we’ve made it.
Something that has helped everyone get comfortable with more complex Distributed Version Control System like Mercurial has been the distribution of shims and jigs amongst the team. I thought these tips might be useful to others as well.
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