Easy way to keep a copy of my repo on a USB?

Juan_8rfl0c

Is there any easy way to keep a copy of my repo on a USB by using Sourcetree + Mercurial + Bitbucket?

I mean having a everything synchronized with my local working directory and my remote repository at Bitbucket or Github?

Here some people explains how to do it with git commands

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/38153478/copying-a-git-repository-to-usb-drive

But I'd like to get it from the Sourcetree GUI, and I'm using Mercurial at Bitbucket, though a Git solution would also be nice..

 

I'm using repository to keep a copy of a project I'm doing for my PhD. And I work both from the university and home.  But sometimes I don't have Internet at home and I need to rely on a USB.

Ana Retamal

 

Hi Juan, welcome to the Community!

First of all, let me say this is not a question about Bitbucket or Sourcetree, more about Mercurial, but let me try to help anyway.

If you're already using Bitbucket, Github, and Sourcetree and have copies of your repo in all the three of them, you'll be able to always have them in sync. Getting a copy of your repository in your USB drive is as simple as copy-pasting the whole directory into it.

The article you linked is doing something different because it's not just keeping a copy of the repo, is adding it as a remote, which I believe would work better in your case. If you'd like to do that, you'll need to use Mercurial commands (not Git) and I recommend you check their documentation at https://www.mercurial-scm.org/wiki/QuickStart. You won't be able to do that from Sourcetree, you'll need to use the terminal, though. Is there any reason why you'd want to use Sourcetree for that?

Is there a reason why you'd want to use Git too? Mercurial and Git are different systems, and you'd need to convert from one to the other, or you could use this plugin to collaborate to the same repo using both systems.

Hope that clarifies some things, Juan. Let us know if you have any questions!

Cheers,

Ana