Table of Contents

DAC0 project documentation

Toolbox

It would be especially useful to review the manual pages or any documentation on the following resources:

Background

What is an archive

a place where data is collected, preserved, managed, and made accessible to those with permission; although many are public.

in the context of Linux, an archive is a place to store as many folders / files as one needs into one centralized file for long-term use.

What actions can be performed on an archive?

an archive can be compressed to be smaller

What is compression

the proccess of encoding data into fewer bits than the original representation

How does compression differ from archiving?

archiving doesn't reduce file size, while compression does.

Types of compression (lossy vs lossless)

after compressing a file with a lossless technique, the original image before it was compressed should look exactly the same after it is decompressed. Lossy compression makes a file lose data everytime it is compressed and decompressed.

Procedure

Repository Operations

Checking current repository status

hg status brings up a list of all things ready to be staged

Adding untracked files to repository

hg add <File name> stages files, to get ready to be commited.

Committing changes

hg commit -m “your message here.” committing a change initializes it for a push and gives a description to the update

Pushing commits upstream to server

hg push. pushes any commits to the remote repository.

Pulling changes from server

hg pull. pulls changes from repo, but doesn't go into effect immediately.

Updating current repository

hg update. after pulling, do update to change your devices repo to update to the pulled one.