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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"] and build Mercurial from source or use BinaryPackages to install
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
[http://www.red-bean.com/~bos/hgbook.pdf Distributed Revision Control with Mercurial] - an unofficial manual
["UsingExtensions"] - add optional features like mq, hgk, bisect, etc.
- ["HOWTOs"] explain some useful ways of using Mercurial
[http://selenic.com/mercurial/bugs/ Bug Tracker] and MailingLists
For refugees from other SCMs
CvsInfo - info for CVS users
RepositoryConversion from other SCM formats to Mercurial
Further information
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].