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

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

This is a wiki for the Mercurial ["DistributedSCM"] tool.

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?

Check out the MajorFeatures
["Download"] the latest source or check for BinaryPackages for your system
UnixInstall describes how to install Mercurial under Linux, MacOS X, and Unix variants
WindowsInstall describes how to install Mercurial under Windows

Using Mercurial

A QuickStart for the impatient
["Tutorial"] for new users (["FrenchTutorial"] and ["SpanishTutorial"] available)
[:FAQ:Frequently Asked Questions]
[http://www.selenic.com/mercurial/hg.1.html hg(1)] and [http://www.selenic.com/mercurial/hgrc.5.html hgrc(5)] manpages
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

For refugees from CVS and other systems

CvsConcepts - translations of ["CVS"] concepts into Mercurial terms
CvsCommands - equivalents of commands provided by ["CVS"]
ConvertingRepositories from other ["SCM"] formats to Mercurial
["Glossary"] of terms (useful if you're not used to distributed source management)
A ["Tag"] is slightly different in Mercurial than in other ["SCM"] systems

Information for contributors

Tips for ContributingChanges
The ToDo list and MissingFeatures
["Design"] - Mercurial's data structures and how it uses them.
WhatGoesWhere - the project architecture
WireProtocol - the push/pull changegroup protocol
OptionNaming - the conventions used to name command-line options
DebuggingFeatures - how to poke around in Mercurial's internals

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

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