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

• UnderstandingMercurial and ["Tutorial"] for new users

• A QuickStart for the impatient

Using Mercurial

• ManPages, [:FAQ:Frequently Asked Questions], and TipsAndTricks

• ["Extensions"] - add optional features like mq, hgk, bisect, etc.
• ["HOWTOs"] explain some useful ways of using Mercurial

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

For refugees from other SCMs

• CvsInfo - info for CVS users

• RepositoryConversion 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].