Hello,

When NetBeans 6.1 Beta was released, I saw Mercurial in-built support, and after using it for sometime, I feel it is really amazing. However, my first reaction (somewhat negative) was expressed in my other blog, where I discussed about the Past, Present and Future of NetBeans Sources!

Here are few blogs which I did related to Mercurial;

• Community Docs | Tips & Tricks
• NetBeans Dzone - Dzone Links
• Going Mercurial

This year in April, I had made a clone of main repos of NB 6.1 Beta sources. Yesterday, I did it again for cloning a fresh repos, i.e. for NB 6.1 FCS. I am looking forward to explore the source code, this time which would help me making an efficient, stable module, which could be really useful too!

sTay Tuned for more… eNjoy Technology…

Guys,

Recently I came across this website -http://nb-openjdk.netbeans.org/-, and I realised that there was indeed a blog, which was related to building OpenJDK using NetBeans, too.

I am still exploring this new dimension, and really excited to work on the language, which I love the most.

We all know that their source code is version-ed by Mercurial, so I realised one more thing that NetBeans also has Mercurial SCM, so why not “Checkout” their code first.

Did I say “Checkout”? Sorry, actually its “Cloning“, which basically creates the copy of the code (stored at the remote repos) to a local repos on your Hard Disk. I used the NetBeans 6.1 Beta to “Clone Other…”

You may then, use various Mercurial commands to tweak your local copy, and then later on, contribute a patch to the community, when the patch is ready…

eNjoy TechnOlogy…