Mbed online tools are getting a major upgrade. Code collaboration 2.0!

What is code collaboration?¶

• Finding code you can reuse such as libraries
• Writing your own code and sharing it with others
• Working together on a project
• Improving, modifying or adapting the work of others

It's also:

• Managing the dependencies of programs and libraries
• Handling dependencies in conjunction with version control - so recognising that dependencies can change over time and across different versions of a project

Collaboration on mbed¶

The new collaboration model uses as it's foundation Mercurial, a distributed version control system. More on that in 'How it works', below.

From the point of view of the differences in functionality, there are a few bits of terminology we should cover first.

• Remote repository = A library or program which is published on mbed.org.
• Local repository = A program or a library which is in your private workspace. A Local repository may be 'linked' to a Remote repository.
• Pull = Copy changes from another repository to your own
• Push = Copy changes to another repository from your own
• Publish = Create a public repository

Next: Collaboration/Getting started