Mercurial Access

Our group keeps its specs in a kind of version control system called "Marcurial" (know also as "hg" from the command line). It's pretty much the same as GIT , so if you know GIT you should be right at home.

Install Mercurial

You can get Mercurial from the Mercurial download page (Mac, Linux, Windows).

Access the repo

You can view the files in our repor by going here:

native web apps repo

Or, if you have installed Mercurial already, pull the repository using the command line:

hg clone https://dvcs.w3.org/hg/nativeapps

Editor/Member set up

If you are a member of the group (and want to edit a spec), you can set up it up like this (Mac/Linux):

If you have Mercurial already installed (type 'hg --version' in terminal to check), save the following in ~/.hgrc (using your W3C username and password):

[ui]
username = Joe User <joe@user.example>
verbose = True

[auth]
w3c.prefix = https://dvcs.w3.org/hg/
w3c.username = juser
w3c.password = iamawesome

(Yes! storing passwords sucks... will speak to W3C about that)