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"] 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

• [http://www.ivy.fr/mercurial/ref/v1.0 Quick Reference Cards] (PDF and PNG) to decorate your desk

Using Mercurial

• The unofficial manual: [http://hgbook.red-bean.com/ Distributed Revision Control with Mercurial] ([http://hgbook.red-bean.com/hgbook.html HTML], [http://hgbook.red-bean.com/hgbook.pdf PDF], [http://hg.serpentine.com/mercurial/book source])

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

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

• ["HOWTOs"] explain some useful ways of using Mercurial

• MercurialHosting lists options for public hosting of your repositories

• [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

• [http://betterexplained.com/articles/intro-to-distributed-version-control-illustrated/ Distributed version control illustrated]

Further information

• Commercial [:Support:support] and consulting

• 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].