Is it possible to set up Git or set up Mercurial on Raspberry Pi and or Chrome OS ?

[Joel L. Huebner]

I'm a newbie here, but understand the concept of a "dev" "test" "live" environment. I'm a Systems Engineer, for some crazy reason, learning application programming.  

 These two applications, are they "shells" that build code in the appropriate environment?  Different from "PowerShell" "bsh" "csh" etc...

I see Win/Mac/Nix all install some type of code, that then you work inside.  Here's another part of my question.  Is/has anyone considered having these tools in a "cloud" environment?  Personally/professionally, I do 99.9% of my IT work, from my Chromebook. I have a Win-10 box, and many Rpi's B, B+, 2-B... a couple of each.  Working from Chrome OS is so much "cleaner" ... IMHO...  Thank you for looking at my questions.   JLH

[jredmond]

Git and Mercurial are applications in the traditional sense, not shells on their own. You'd either need to install a binary package or work in a cloud-based IDE (such as one of the ones in https://blog.bitbucket.org/2015/02/11/coding-in-the-cloud-with-bitbucket/) in order to work in either one.

However, since both Git and Mercurial are distributed version control systems, you should be able to maintain as many distinct copies of your repo as you want - one on your Chromebook, one on your Windows box, one on each Pi, and one on Bitbucket Cloud - without trouble.

[Seth]

Your question isn't Bitbucket-specific. You might have more luck asking on a larger site like StackOverflow, where chances are better that another user has tried to do the same thing.

[Kaz]

I don't know much about Git so I write only about Mercurial. If the target environment supports Python 2 (2.7 preferably), you can build a pure Python version of Mercurial on it. You will also need some "shell" to invoke Mercurial.

Also note that both Git and Mercurial keep just your files and are not full build environments. If you need to build your project, you will have to search for another tools including a Cloud IDE.