= !BitBucket =

 http://bitbucket.org/

!BitBucket is a Mercurial repository hosting service with a project view similar to Trac in spirit.

As they say:
 '''Develop code as a team. Keep all your development in one place, be it issue tracking, documentation or sharing code.'''

Lots of good stuff to steal there ;-)

Among other things, they use WikiCreole all over the place, the same way Trac uses its own Trac WikiFormatting everywhere.
Furthermore, the wiki is itself stored in a secondary Mercurial repository, much like described in TighterSubversionIntegration#Aprivaterepository.


Note that we maintain an official Mercurial mirror of the SubversionRepository there, see [http://bitbucket.org/edgewall/trac edgewall/trac].

== Windows Tips
First thing, you will need a Mercurial client.
- The "raw" command-line client can be downloaded here: http://mercurial.selenic.com/
- A GUI client also exists, surprisingly named [http://tortoisehg.bitbucket.org/ TortoiseHG]

It is considered Good Practice to first get things working with command-line, before moving to GUI-based solutions.

=== Basic configuration
You will need to create a configuration file:
- On Windows XP and earlier, create `C:\Documents and Settings\USERNAME\Mercurial.ini`
- On Windows Vista and newer, create `C:\Users\USERNAME\Mercurial.ini`

Important settings for working with the Trac Mercurial mirror:
{{{
#!ini
[extensions]
convert =
eol =
graphlog = 
; See below concerning external extensions
hgsvnutils = \path\to\HgExts\HgSvnUtils\HgSvnUtils.py

[diff]
git = true
}}}

=== Mercurial Extensions
For details on the concept of extensions see http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/UsingExtensions

An important external extensions for Trac development with Mercurial is the [http://rc.c-space.org/hg/HgSvnUtils HgSvnUtils] extension (maintained by RemyBlank).

To install it, go to some local directory and run (from command-line)
{{{
hg clone http://rc.c-space.org/hg/HgSvnUtils
}}}
and then set the `hgsvnutils` option mentioned above to the checked-out location.

=== Working with BitBucket
Once you installed Mercurial command-line client, you can `hg clone http://bitbucket.org/edgewall/trac` (or any other public repository).

After creating an account and a repository (or Trac-fork), you will also be able to push & pull changes against the remote repository:
- Using `https://USERNAME@bitbucket.org/USERNAME/reponame` over SSL (built-in support in the Mercurial client); or
- Using `ssh://hg@bitbucket.org/USERNAME/reponame` over SSH (note that this uses `hg` as username!)[[BR]]
  For this you will need `ssh` client, which is not native to Windows, as well as setting up SSH keys and uploading the public key to your BitBucket account. You may obtain a `ssh` client for Windows (like `plink.exe`), but why bother..?