Exercise "git/mercurial"

1. Create a (public) repository for your exercises and homeworks using either git or mercurial.

1. Read about git at Bitbucket[→] (or any other place) and/or about mercurial at mercurial-scm.org and choose one of them.
2. Get yourself an account on one of the Distributed Version Control servers. Bitbucket, Github, and Gitlab (which run git only) are popular choices with free plans. Sourceforge (which runs both git and mercurial) is another possibility. Yet another possibility is gitlab.au.dk.
3. Install git/mercrial on your box,

   sudo apt install git
   

   or

   sudo apt install mercurial
   

4. At the server:
   create a new empty project with an indicative name (like "ppnm" :) and find out its address (depends on the server).
5. At your box:
   make a directory for your repositories,

   mkdir ~/repos
   

   go to your directory,

   cd ~/repos
   

   clone your (empty) repository from the server to this directory,

   git clone address-of-your-repository
   

   or, if you use mercurial

   hg clone address-of-your-repository
   

   Do your exercises in (subdirectories of) this directory, commit changes, and push the commit to the server,

   git add --all
   git commit --all --message 'did this and that blah blah...'
   git push
   

   or, if you use mercurial,

   hg add
   hg commit --message 'an indicative message describing commit'
   hg push
   

   The long options can be abbreviated as -a and -m.