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(see also UnderstandingMercurial and Tutorial) #pragma section-numbers 2
= Quick Start =
''(see also [[UnderstandingMercurial]] and [[Tutorial]] and [[QuickStart2]])''

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By default Mercurial uses a username of the form 'user@localhost' for commits.
This is often meaningless. It's best to configure a proper email address in {{{~/.hgrc}}} by adding lines such as the following:
By default Mercurial uses a username of the form '{{{user@localhost}}}' for commits.
This is often meaningless. It's best to configure a proper email address in {{{~/.hgrc}}} (or on a Windows system in {{{%USERPROFILE%\Mercurial.ini}}}) by adding lines such as the following:
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username = Author Name <email@address> username = John Doe <john@example.com>
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If you have a URL to a browsable project repository (eg: http://selenic.com/hg), you can grab a copy like so: If you have a URL to a browsable project [[Repository|repository]] (for example [[http://selenic.com/hg]]), you can grab a copy like so:
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$ hg clone http://selenic.com/hg $ hg clone http://selenic.com/hg mercurial-repo
real URL is http://www.selenic.com/hg/
requesting all changes
adding changesets
adding manifests
adding file changes
added 6908 changesets with 13429 changes to 976 files
updating working directory
861 files updated, 0 files merged, 0 files removed, 0 files unresolved
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This will create a new directory called hg (by default), grab the complete project history, and check out the tipmost changeset. This will create a new directory called {{{mercurial-repo}}}, grab the complete project history, and [[Update|check out]] the [[Tip|tip]]most [[ChangeSet|changeset]] (see also [[Clone]]).

See which revision was checked out:

{{{
$ cd mercurial-repo
$ hg parents
changeset: 6907:6dcbe191a9b5
tag: tip
user: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
date: Mon Aug 18 16:50:36 2008 -0500
summary: Fix up tests
}}}
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You'll want to start by creating an hg repository: You'll want to start by creating a repository:
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Mercurial will look for a file named [".hgignore"] in the root of your
repository which contains a set of regular expressions to ignore in
file paths. Here's an example .hgignore file:
Mercurial will look for a file named [[.hgignore]] in the root of your
repository which contains a set of glob patterns and regular expressions to ignore in file paths. Here's an example .hgignore file:
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This will list all files that are not ignored with a 'U' flag (unknown). Edit your .hgignore file until only files you want to track are listed by status. You'll want to track your .hgignore file too! But you'll probably not want to track files generated by your build process. Once you're satisfied, schedule your files to be added, then commit: This will list all files that are not ignored with a '?' flag (not tracked). Edit your .hgignore file until only files you want to track are listed by status. You'll want to track your .hgignore file too! But you'll probably not want to track files generated by your build process. Once you're satisfied, schedule your files to be added, then [[Commit|commit]]:
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$ hg parents # see the currently checked out revision
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== Branching and merging == == Clone, Commit, Merge ==
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$ hg clone project project-work # create a new branch $ hg clone project project-work # clone repository
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$ <make other changes>
$ hg commit
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$ hg parents # see the revisions that have been merged into the working directory
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See also: [[Clone]], [[Commit]], [[Pull]], [[Merge]], [[Parent]]
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See also: [[Export]]
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foo$ hg serve -n "My repo" -p 80 foo$ sudo hg serve -n "My repo" -p 80
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See also: [[Serve]], [[Push]], [[Pull]]

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'''translations:''' [[ChineseQuickStart|Chinese]] [[QuickStartDe|German]] [[QuickStartPtBr|Portuguese]] [[JapaneseQuickStart|Japanese]] [[ThaiQuickStart|Thai]]

Quick Start

(see also UnderstandingMercurial and Tutorial and QuickStart2)

1. Setting a username

By default Mercurial uses a username of the form 'user@localhost' for commits. This is often meaningless. It's best to configure a proper email address in ~/.hgrc (or on a Windows system in %USERPROFILE%\Mercurial.ini) by adding lines such as the following:

[ui]
username = John Doe <john@example.com>

2. Working on an existing Mercurial project

If you have a URL to a browsable project repository (for example http://selenic.com/hg), you can grab a copy like so:

$ hg clone http://selenic.com/hg mercurial-repo
real URL is http://www.selenic.com/hg/
requesting all changes
adding changesets
adding manifests
adding file changes
added 6908 changesets with 13429 changes to 976 files
updating working directory
861 files updated, 0 files merged, 0 files removed, 0 files unresolved

This will create a new directory called mercurial-repo, grab the complete project history, and check out the tipmost changeset (see also Clone).

See which revision was checked out:

$ cd mercurial-repo
$ hg parents
changeset:   6907:6dcbe191a9b5
tag:         tip
user:        Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
date:        Mon Aug 18 16:50:36 2008 -0500
summary:     Fix up tests

3. Setting up a new Mercurial project

You'll want to start by creating a repository:

$ cd project/
$ hg init           # creates .hg

Mercurial will look for a file named .hgignore in the root of your repository which contains a set of glob patterns and regular expressions to ignore in file paths. Here's an example .hgignore file:

syntax: glob
*.orig
*.rej
*~
*.o
tests/*.err

syntax: regexp
.*\#.*\#$

Test your .hgignore file with:

$ hg status         # show all non-ignored files

This will list all files that are not ignored with a '?' flag (not tracked). Edit your .hgignore file until only files you want to track are listed by status. You'll want to track your .hgignore file too! But you'll probably not want to track files generated by your build process. Once you're satisfied, schedule your files to be added, then commit:

$ hg add            # add those 'unknown' files
$ hg commit         # commit all changes, edit changelog entry
$ hg parents        # see the currently checked out revision       

4. Clone, Commit, Merge

$ hg clone project project-work    # clone repository
$ cd project-work
$ <make changes>
$ hg commit
$ cd ../project
$ <make other changes>
$ hg commit
$ hg pull ../project-work   # pull changesets from project-work
$ hg merge                  # merge the new tip from project-work into our working directory
$ hg parents                # see the revisions that have been merged into the working directory
$ hg commit                 # commit the result of the merge

See also: Clone, Commit, Pull, Merge, Parent

5. Exporting a patch

(make changes)
$ hg commit
$ hg export tip    # export the most recent commit

See also: Export

6. Network support

# clone from the primary Mercurial repo
foo$ hg clone http://selenic.com/hg/
foo$ cd hg

# update an existing repo
foo$ hg pull http://selenic.com/hg/

# export your current repo via HTTP with browsable interface
foo$ sudo hg serve -n "My repo" -p 80

# push changes to a remote repo with SSH
foo$ hg push ssh://user@example.com/hg/

See also: Serve, Push, Pull


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