Question about Source Control

[Rustom Mody]

On Monday, March 17, 2014 6:36:33 PM UTC+5:30, Frank Millman wrote:
> Hi all

> I know I *should* be using a Source Control Management system, but at 
> present I am not. I tried to set up Mercurial a couple of years ago, but I 
> think I set it up wrongly, as I got myself confused and found it more of a 
> hindrance than a help. Now I am ready to try again, but I want to avoid my 
> earlier mistakes.

> I understand the concept, and I understand the importance, so I do not need 
> reminding of those. What I would like help with is the basic setup. I could 
> subscribe to the Mercurial mailing list and ask there, but I am hoping for a 
> kick-start here. Here is my setup.

> All my source code resides on an old Linux server, which I switch on in the 
> morning and switch off at night, but otherwise hardly ever look at. It uses 
> 'samba' to allow sharing with Windows, and 'nfs' to allow sharing with other 
> Linux machines.

> I need to test my program on Windows and on Linux, so I run it from both at 
> various times. On Windows I have a 'mapped drive' pointing to the source 
> code. On Linux I use a third machine, running a recent Fedora, using nfs to 
> mount a directory pointing to the source code. Obviously each machine has 
> its own version of Python installed.

> I do my development on the Windows machine. I use TextPad, a simple text 
> editor, which works fine for my purposes. It uses the mapped drive to point 
> to the source code.

> So where should I install the SCM, and how should I set it up so that I can 
> access the latest version from any machine?

> Any hints will be appreciated.

Seen this??
Yeah may not apply directly to your use-case buts seems worth a read
https://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/gitworkflows.html

[At command line
$ git help -w workflows
will give you the same
]