= 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
== Links
* [http://www.selenic.com/mercurial Official Mercurial home page] * MailingList * IRC channel: #mercurial on irc.freenode.net * [http://www.kwiki.org/?KwikiFormattingRules KwikiFormattingRules]