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Quick start in 25min
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1a. Linux and Mac OS X: ensure that Mercurial (hg) is installed; see
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   also http://www.selenic.com/mercurial
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1b. Windows: ensure that Cygwin with Mercurial and Perl is installed;
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   see also http://www.cygwin.com/
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2. Clone repository (bash shell commands):
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    hg clone http://isabelle.in.tum.de/repos/isabelle
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    cd isabelle
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    ./bin/isabelle components -I
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    ./bin/isabelle components -a
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    ./bin/isabelle jedit -l HOL
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3. Update repository (bash shell commands):
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    cd isabelle
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    hg pull -u
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    ./bin/isabelle components -a
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    ./bin/isabelle jedit -l HOL
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Introduction
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Mercurial http://www.selenic.com/mercurial belongs to the current
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generation of source code management systems that follow the so-called
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paradigm of "distributed version control".  This is a terrific name
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for plain revision control without the legacy of CVS or SVN.  See also
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http://hginit.com/ for an introduction to the main ideas.  The
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Mercurial book http://hgbook.red-bean.com/ explains many more details.
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Mercurial offers great flexibility in organizing the flow of changes,
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both between individual developers and designated pull/push areas that
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are shared with others.  This additional power demands some additional
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responsibility to maintain a certain development process that fits to
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a particular project.
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Regular Mercurial operations are strictly monotonic, where changeset
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transactions are only added, but never deleted.  There are special
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tools to manipulate repositories via non-monotonic actions (such as
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"rollback" or "strip"), but recovering from gross mistakes that have
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escaped into the public can be hard and embarrassing.  It is much
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easier to inspect and amend changesets routinely before pushing.
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The effect of the critical "pull" / "push" operations can be tested in
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a dry run via "incoming" / "outgoing".  The "fetch" extension includes
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useful sanity checks beyond raw "pull" / "update" / "merge".  Most
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other operations are local to the user's repository clone.  This gives
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some freedom for experimentation without affecting anybody else.
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Mercurial provides nice web presentation of incoming changes with a
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digest of log entries; this also includes RSS/Atom news feeds.  There
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are add-on history browsers such as "hg view" and TortoiseHg.  Unlike
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the default web view, some of these tools help to inspect the semantic
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content of non-trivial merge nodes.
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Initial configuration
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The official Isabelle repository can be cloned like this:
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  hg clone http://isabelle.in.tum.de/repos/isabelle
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This will create a local directory "isabelle", unless an alternative
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name is specified.  The full repository meta-data and history of
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changes is in isabelle/.hg; local configuration for this clone can be
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added to isabelle/.hg/hgrc, but note that hgrc files are never copied
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by another clone operation.
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There is also $HOME/.hgrc for per-user Mercurial configuration.  The
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initial configuration requires at least an entry to identify yourself
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as follows:
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  [ui]
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  username = XXX
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Isabelle contributors are free to choose either a short "login name"
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(for accounts at TU Munich) or a "full name" -- with or without mail
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address.  It is important to stick to this choice once and for all.
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The machine default that Mercurial produces for unspecified
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[ui]username is not appropriate.
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Such configuration can be given in $HOME/.hgrc (for each home
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directory on each machine) or in .hg/hgrc (for each repository clone).
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Here are some further examples for hgrc.  This is how to provide
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default options for common commands:
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  [defaults]
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  log = -l 10
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This is how to configure some extension, which is called "graphlog"
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and provides the "glog" command:
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  [extensions]
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  hgext.graphlog =
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Shared pull/push access
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The entry point http://isabelle.in.tum.de/repos/isabelle is world
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readable, both via plain web browsing and the hg client as described
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above.  Anybody can produce a clone, change it locally, and then use
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regular mechanisms of Mercurial to report changes upstream, say via
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mail to someone with write access to that file space.  It is also
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quite easy to publish changed clones again on the web, using the
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ad-hoc command "hg serve -v", or the hgweb.cgi or hgwebdir.cgi scripts
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that are included in the Mercurial distribution, and send a "pull
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request" to someone else.  There are also public hosting services for
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Mercurial repositories.
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The downstream/upstream mode of operation is quite common in the
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distributed version control community, and works well for occasional
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changes produced by anybody out there.  Of course, upstream
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maintainers need to review and moderate changes being proposed, before
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pushing anything onto the official Isabelle repository at TUM.  Direct
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pushes are also reviewed routinely in a post-hoc fashion; everybody
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hooked on the main repository is called to keep an eye on incoming
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changes.  In any case, changesets need to be understandable, at the
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time of writing and many years later.
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Push access to the Isabelle repository requires an account at TUM,
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with properly configured ssh to isabelle-server.in.tum.de.  You also
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need to be a member of the "isabelle" Unix group.
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Sharing a locally modified clone then works as follows, using your
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user name instead of "wenzelm":
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  hg out ssh://wenzelm@isabelle-server.in.tum.de//home/isabelle-repository/repos/isabelle
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In fact, the "out" or "outgoing" command performs only a dry run: it
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displays the changesets that would get published.  An actual "push",
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with a lasting effect on the Isabelle repository, works like this:
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  hg push ssh://wenzelm@isabelle-server.in.tum.de//home/isabelle-repository/repos/isabelle
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Default paths for push and pull can be configured in
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independent branches of development first, but merge with others
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frequently.  The basic hg merge operation is more general than
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"fetch" extension accommodates this case nicely, automating trivial
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merges and requiring manual intervention for actual conflicts only.
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  [extensions]
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  hgext.fetch =
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  [defaults]
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  fetch = -m "merged"
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conflicts or lost updates, it is essential to observe to following
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general discipline wrt. the public Isabelle push area:
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  * Before editing, pull or fetch the latest version.
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  * Accumulate private commits for a maximum of 1-3 days.
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  * Start publishing again by pull or fetch, which normally produces
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    local merges.
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  * Test the merged result, e.g. like this:
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      isabelle build -a
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  * Push back in real time.
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delaying others from doing the same concurrently.
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The following principles should be kept in mind when producing
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changesets that are meant to be published at some point.
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  * The author of changes needs to be properly identified, using
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    [ui]username configuration as described above.
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    While Mercurial also provides means for signed changesets, we want
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    correctly (and uniquely).
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  * The history of sources is an integral part of the sources
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    themselves.  This means that private experiments and branches
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    should not be published by accident.  Named branches are not
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    is replaced by regular repository clones in Mercurial.
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    Exchanging local experiments with some other users can be done
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    directly on peer-to-peer basis, without affecting the central
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    pull/push area.
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  * Log messages are an integral part of the history of sources.
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    Other people will have to inspect them routinely, to understand
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    why things have been done in a certain way at some point.
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    Authors of log entries should be aware that published changes are
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    actually read.  The main point is not to announce novelties, but
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    to describe faithfully what has been done, and provide some clues
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    about the motivation behind it.  The main recipient is someone who
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    needs to understand the change in the distant future to isolate
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    problems.  Sometimes it is helpful to reference past changes via
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    changeset ids in the log entry.
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  * The standard changelog entry format of the Isabelle repository
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    admits several (vaguely related) items to be rolled into one
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    changeset.  Each item is then described on a separate line that
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    may become longer as screen line and is terminated by punctuation.
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    These lines are roughly ordered by importance.
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    This format conforms to established Isabelle tradition.  In
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    contrast, the default of Mercurial prefers a single headline
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    followed by a long body text.  The reason for that is a somewhat
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    different development model of typical "distributed" projects,
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    where external changes pass through a hierarchy of reviewers and
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    maintainers, until they end up in some authoritative repository.
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    Isabelle changesets can be more spontaneous, growing from the
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    bottom-up.
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    accommodates the Isabelle changelog format.  Note that multiple
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    lines will sometimes display as a single paragraph in HTML, so
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    some terminating punctuation is required.  Do not squeeze multiple
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    items on the same line in the original text!
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ML system.  Some extra configuration is required to approximate some
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of the system integration of official Isabelle releases from a
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bare-bones repository snapshot.  The special directory Admin/ -- which
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is absent in official releases -- might provide some further clues.
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on the spot:
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  (1) The bash script ISABELLE_HOME_USER/etc/settings is augmented by
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      init_components "$HOME/.isabelle/contrib" "$ISABELLE_HOME/Admin/components/main"
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components change accordingly.
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The Isabelle build process is managed as follows:
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