Mercurial distributed SCM

This is a wiki for Matt Mackall's ["Mercurial"] DistributedSCM tool.

Please contribute!

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New to all this stuff?

• ["Download"]

• There may be BinaryPackages available for your system already

• UnixInstall describes how to install ["Mercurial"] under Linux, MacOS X, and Unix variants

• ServerInstall describes how to set up project's repository so it can be publically accessed via an Apache web server.

• WindowsInstall describes how to install ["Mercurial"] under Windows

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

• ConfigurationOptions describes the options available in the hgrc files

• OtherTools that work with Mercurial

For CVS refugees

• CvsConcepts - translations of ["CVS"] concepts into ["Mercurial"] terms

• CvsCommands - equivalents of commands provided by ["CVS"]

• How to handle MultipleCommitters

More information

• ["FAQ"]

• ConvertingRepositories from other ["SCM"] formats to ["Mercurial"]

• ["Glossary"] of terms (useful if you're not used to distributed source management)
• ["Design"]: Mercurial's data structures and how it uses them.

• MissingFeatures that have yet to be implemented

• A ["Tag"] is slightly different in ["Mercurial"] than in other ["SCM"] systems

• WorkingPractices describing several somewhat sane ways to use ["Mercurial"]

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

Information for contributors

• ContributingChanges

• The ToDo list

• MissingFeatures - a good place to look if you want to help out

• OptionNaming - the conventions used to name command-line options

• WireProtocol

Links

• [http://www.selenic.com/mercurial Official Mercurial home page]

• MailingList

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

• [http://www.kwiki.org/?KwikiFormattingRules KwikiFormattingRules]