Diff for "Mercurial"

Hg: the chemical symbol for mercury, from the Greek hydrargyrum.

mercurial: relating to or having characteristics (eloquence, shrewdness, swiftness, thievishness) attributed to the god Mercury.

Mercurial: a fast, lightweight Source Control Management system designed for efficient handling of very large distributed projects.

Getting Started

• Download BinaryPackages for your system or ["Download"] the latest source

• See WhatsNew and read the UpgradeNotes

• UnixInstall and WindowsInstall for installing from source

• A QuickStart for the impatient

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

• [http://selenic.com/mercurial/bugs/ Mercurial bug tracker]

Using Mercurial

• UnderstandingMercurial - an overview of Mercurial's decentralized model

• [http://www.selenic.com/mercurial/hg.1.html hg(1)], [http://www.selenic.com/mercurial/hgmerge.1.html hgmerge(1)], [http://www.selenic.com/mercurial/hgignore.5.html hgignore(5)] and [http://www.selenic.com/mercurial/hgrc.5.html hgrc(5)] manpages and ["TranslatedManPages"]

• [:FAQ:Frequently Asked Questions] - FAQ

• TipsAndTricks

• WorkingPractices describing several somewhat sane ways to use Mercurial

• How to handle MultipleCommitters

• CommunicatingChanges describes the various ways Mercurial can exchange changesets

• PublishingRepositories and ServerInstall describes various ways to make your code visible to the world

• NamedBranches gives an introduction to this recent feature

• ["Extensions"] - add optional features like mq, hgk, bisect, etc.

For refugees from other SCMs

• CvsInfo - info for CVS users

• ConvertingRepositories from other SCM formats to Mercurial

Further information

• MailingLists:

  • general list:

    [http://www.selenic.com/mailman/listinfo/mercurial/ subscriptions], [http://www.selenic.com/pipermail/mercurial/ archives], and [http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=mercurial&w=2 archive search] developers list:

    [http://www.selenic.com/mailman/listinfo/mercurial-devel/ subscriptions], [http://www.selenic.com/pipermail/mercurial-devel/ archives]

• DeveloperInfo for Mercurial hackers

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

• OtherTools that work with Mercurial

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

• A list of ["Presentations"] and other related events.

Please contribute!

Contributions are most welcome! Please create a user name for yourself by clicking "Login" in the upper right. Mercurial and all wiki content are available under the [http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html GNU GPL].