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--- tools:git [2016/05/14 01:24] – created florian
+++ tools:git [2017/01/30 16:57] (current) – plinss
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 ===== Getting Started =====
-==== Installing Mercurial ====
+==== Installing Git ====
-You need to first [[tools:hg:install|install Mercurial on your system]], if you haven't already. Our server is running version 3.2.1. Earlier versions should work, but we recommend using the latest client.
+You need to first [[tools:git:install|install git on your system]], if you haven't already. We recommend using the latest client.
-You can see if you already have Mercurial installed by opening up a command shell and typing:
+You can see if you already have Git installed by opening up a command shell and typing:
 <code>
-hg --version
+git --version
 </code>
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 <code>
-Mercurial Distributed SCM (version 3.2)
+git version 2.7.1
-(see http://mercurial.selenic.com for more information)
 </code>
-As long as the version number you see is 1.8 or higher, you have a new enough version of Mercurial.
 ==== Setting Up Mercurial Preferences ====
+<note warning>This section and the ones below have not yet been updated, and still talk about mercurial. If you update it, please move this warning down after doing so. If you were looking for instructions, come back some other time, they're not here yet.</note>
 Note: [[http://www.selenic.com/mercurial/hgrc.5.html|Detailed instructions for the config file]] are available, but for now, this guide will focus only on setting up the basics.
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 ** Avoiding Fingerprint Warnings (and improving security)**
-Depending on your OS and Mercurial root certificate configuration you may get a warning message about the host certificate when communicating with the central repository. If that happens, you can remove those warnings by adding the following to your configuration file:
+Depending on your OS and Mercurial root certificate configuration you may get a warning message about the host certificate when communicating with the central repository. If that happens, follow [[https://www.mercurial-scm.org//wiki/CACertificates#Configuration_of_HTTPS_certificate_authorities|the instructions on the Mercurial wiki]].
-  [hostfingerprints]
-  dvcs.w3.org = 23:87:0E:03:81:83:F1:68:9E:22:B1:94:2E:6E:4D:BD:08:9B:45:74
-  hg.csswg.org = 9D:D3:EC:29:34:8A:58:91:72:38:D5:3A:A8:04:F7:A9:6C:66:79:4C
-  hg.fxtf.org = 58:EA:6E:CA:E8:BB:0D:7F:26:DE:CB:15:69:2E:01:BA:30:92:AB:11
-  hg.css-houdini.org = 20:92:CF:9D:D7:29:C6:B8:7D:58:E3:1D:A9:42:C6:9C:9F:02:87:49
-Note that these fingerprints will only be valid until the certificates expire (dvcs.w3.org expires 03-may-2016, hg.csswg.org expires expires 09-apr-2018). You will need to update the fingerprints when new certificates are issued.
-Alternatively (and better if you're on an OS where this is easy), you can avoid ever having to add fingerprints by following [[http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/CACertificates#Configuration_of_HTTPS_certificate_authorities|the instructions on the Mercurial wiki]].
 </note>