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= Beginner's Guides =
A collection of useful introductions and tutorials for new Mercurial users.

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== Here ==

 * [[UnderstandingMercurial|Understanding Mercurial]] - a graphical illustration of basic Mercurial concepts
 * [[Tutorial]] - a step-by-step guide for for the basics
 * QuickStart - a cheat sheet for the impatient

== Elsewhere ==

 * [[http://hgbook.red-bean.com/read/a-tour-of-mercurial-the-basics.html|A Tour of Mercurial: The Basics]] - chapter 2 of ''[[MercurialBook|Mercurial: The Definitive Guide]]''
 * Getting started exercises: [[http://mercurial.aragost.com/kick-start|Mercurial Kick Start]]
 * [[http://www.hginit.com|Hg Init]] - a Mercurial introduction by Joel Spolsky
 * A tutorial based on examples: [[http://www.jemander.se/MercurialByExample.pdf|MercurialByExample.pdf]]
 * The article ''[[http://www.lunch.org.uk/articles/Hg.pdf|Inside a distributed version control system]]'' (PDF, 13 pages)
 * [[QuickReferenceCardsAndCheatSheets|Quick Reference Cards and Cheat Sheets]] (PDF and PNG) to decorate your desk
 * [[http://betterexplained.com/articles/intro-to-distributed-version-control-illustrated/|Distributed version control illustrated]]
 * [[http://hgtip.com|hg tip]] - Learn Mercurial one bite-sized tip at a time.
 * A [[http://stevelosh.com/blog/2009/08/a-guide-to-branching-in-mercurial/|guide to branching]] by Steve Losh
 * [[http://mercurial.ru/|Links]] to various tutorials in Russian.

[[JapaneseBeginnersGuides|日本語]]