mercurial is usually installed earlier in the process... it is needed before other python libraries make sure you have it, and if not, install it now
also [2009.06.22 09:08:16] notes for this are elsewhere but this is also a good time to install mercurial easy_install mercurial
on Mac OS X this does require Xcode to be up to date (can still download an executable for mac)
looks like they're getting better. stabilizing.
cp ../charles/.hgignore .
if there is already an instance that you want to start from, go ahead and grab a copy using whatever version control system you like.
hg clone [source] [destination]
hg init