Mercurial distributed SCM

This is a wiki for Matt Mackall's ["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 "You are AnonymousGnome" link up in the top right corner of this page, then type in a user name, wiki fashion, where it asks you to. If you're not familiar with [http://www.kwiki.org Kwiki], read [http://www.kwiki.org/?KwikiFormattingRules KwikiFormattingRules] before you start editing anything.

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