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Work easier, work faster
Mercurial is a free, distributed source control management tool. It efficiently handles projects of any size and offers an easy and intuitive interface (more info).
How you can benefit from Mercurial
It is fast and powerful
Mercurial offers you the power and speed to efficiently handle projects of any size and kind. Every clone contains the whole project history, so committing, branching, tagging and merging are local operations which makes them fast and convenient. You can use a multitude of workflows and easily enhance its functionality with extensions.
It is easy to learn
You can follow our simple guide to learn how to revision your documents with Mercurial, or just use the quick start to get going instantly. A short overview of Mercurial's decentralized model is also available.
And it just works
Mercurial strives to deliver on each of its promises. Most tasks simply work on the first try and without requiring arcane knowledge.
Quick Start
Clone a project and create a patch
$ hg clone http://hg-scm.org/hello $ cd hello $ (edit files) $ hg add (new files) $ hg commit -m 'My changes' $ hg export tip > patch.diff
Create a project and commit
$ hg init (project-directory) $ cd (project-directory) $ (add some files) $ hg add $ hg commit -m 'Initial commit'
Download
Mercurial 1.3.1 (Windows)
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Get mercurial for: Mac OS X, Windows, other