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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.
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].
Getting Started
["Download"] the latest source or check for Download BinaryPackages for your system
See WhatsNew and read the UpgradeNotes
UnixInstall describes how to install Mercurial under Linux, MacOS X, and Unix variants
WindowsInstall describes how to install Mercurial under Windows
A QuickStart for the impatient
Using Mercurial
A QuickStart2 for graduates of the above - read before your first commit!
["Tutorial"] for new users (["FrenchTutorial"], ["SpanishTutorial"] , ["JapaneseTutorial"] and ["ChineseTutorial"] available)
[:FAQ:Frequently Asked Questions] - FAQ
[http://www.selenic.com/mercurial/hg.1.html hg(1)], [".hgignore"] and [http://www.selenic.com/mercurial/hgrc.5.html hgrc(5)] manpages and ["TranslatedManPages"]
XemacsAndEmacsUsers - Here is a .hgignore that users of XEmacs and Emacs will love
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
NamedBranches gives an introduction to this recent feature
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
Extensions
UsingHgk - how to use the GUI repository browser
MqExtension - Mercurial Patch Queues
UsingBisect - how to use the bisect extension to find bugs
TransplantExtension - cherry-picks patches and rebases branches
ExtensionHowto - how to write Mercurial extensions
See CategoryExtension for a more complete list.
How To
HgSysTrac - Using hg and trac for Unix system configuration changes management.
Further information
- 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]
- general list:
[http://selenic.com/mercurial/bugs/ Mercurial bug tracker]
["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.
Ideas for Google's SummerOfCode2006.