My version control journey started with CVS, after that I looked at SVN, but never really used it. The shortcomings of centralized repositories were too obvious and with my increasing interest in Haskell I jumped on the distributed version control train with Darcs. I really, really liked it, but it had some nasty things too. After a while I was looking for something different and stumbled over Mercurial, again I was really happy with it but somehow my journey wasn’t over yet.

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I sometimes forget to push or pull changes to or from a remote repository. To remedy the problem I wrote myself a little script to show me the status on the prompt.

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