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
The ToDo list
MissingFeatures - a good place to look if you want to help out
OptionNaming - the conventions used to name command-line options
Links
[http://www.selenic.com/mercurial Official Mercurial home page]
- IRC channel: #mercurial on irc.freenode.net
[http://www.kwiki.org/?KwikiFormattingRules KwikiFormattingRules]