Setup Bitbucket using SSH on Ubuntu

Bitbucket is a good alternate to Github which provides free unlimited private hosting upto 5 collaborators. It uses Mercurial which is DVCS.

I prefer SSH over HTTP to access work on my repository. The steps to setup are as follows:

1. Signup on Bitbucket (Obviously)
2. Create a repository after login using Repository -> Create New Repository
3. Install mercurial on your local system

sudo apt-get install mercurial

4. Create the Mercurial Configuration File
1. vi ~/.hgrc

[ui]
editor = vi
username = FIRST_NAME LAST_NAME <email>

5. Create SSH Key if not present on your local system  using the following steps
1. ssh-keygen
2. The generated key files are stored under ~/.ssh
6. Upload the ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub file to Bitbucket under Account -> SSH Keys
7. Setup the Key in Ubuntu

chmod 644 ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub
ssh-agent bash
ssh-add

8. Now clone the repository from remote server

hg clone ssh://hg@bitbucket.org/<username>/<repository>

9. To add and commit code use the following commands

hg add <file/folder>
hg commit -m '<commit message>'
hg push

 

A very good reference for basic Mercurial is

http://hgbook.red-bean.com/read/mercurial-in-daily-use.html

 

Generate ssh keys

By default ssh-keygen generates a RSA private/public key pair.

To generate a DSA Key

ssh-keygen -t dsa -b 1024 

The option -t is for the type of encryption (dsa/rsa)
The option -b is for the number of bits for encryption (1024,2048 etc)

Get the previous date in month-dd-yyyy formation in unix

Another nifty command in Bash to do so in the required format of month-dd-yyyy

date -d 'yesterday' +%B-%d-%G

Other Formats are mentioned at http://unixhelp.ed.ac.uk/CGI/man-cgi?date

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