Mercurial distributed SCM

This is a wiki for Matt Mackall's ["Mercurial"] ["DistributedSCM"] tool.

Note: this wiki has recently been converted and some formatting issues remain. Feel free to tidy up.

Please contribute!

Contributions are most welcome, but please create a user name for yourself before you edit anything. To do this, click on the "Login" link up in the top right corner of this page and follow the instructions from there.

New to all this stuff?

• ["Download"]

• There may be BinaryPackages available for your system already

• UnixInstall describes how to install ["Mercurial"] under Linux, MacOS X, and Unix variants

• ServerInstall describes how to set up project's repository so it can be publically accessed via an Apache web server.

• WindowsInstall describes how to install ["Mercurial"] under Windows

• ["Tutorial"] for new users (["FrenchTutorial"] and ["SpanishTutorial"] available)

• ConfigurationOptions describes the options available in the hgrc files

• OtherTools that work with Mercurial

For CVS refugees

• CvsConcepts - translations of ["CVS"] concepts into ["Mercurial"] terms

• CvsCommands - equivalents of commands provided by ["CVS"]

• How to handle MultipleCommitters

More information

• ["FAQ"]

• ConvertingRepositories from other ["SCM"] formats to ["Mercurial"]

• ["Glossary"] of terms (useful if you're not used to distributed source management)
• ["Design"]: Mercurial's data structures and how it uses them.

• MissingFeatures that have yet to be implemented

• A ["Tag"] is slightly different in ["Mercurial"] than in other ["SCM"] systems

• WorkingPractices describing several somewhat sane ways to use ["Mercurial"]

• A list of ["ProjectsUsingMercurial"] and links to their repositories.

Information for contributors

• ContributingChanges

• The ToDo list

• MissingFeatures - a good place to look if you want to help out

• OptionNaming - the conventions used to name command-line options

• WireProtocol

Links

• [http://www.selenic.com/mercurial Official Mercurial home page]

• MailingList

• IRC channel: #mercurial on irc.freenode.net