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You can download Mercurial from the project's website, and there are graphical utilities for Windows, Linux and OSX if you'd prefer that to a command line interface. Most Unix package managers include Mercurial, for example on Debian/Ubuntu: $ apt-get install mercurial You can verify Mercurial i...

See also the Mercurial Tutorial Creating a Mercurial Repository A Mercurial repository is simply a directory (referred to as the "working directory") containing an .hg directory with metadata about the contents of the repository. This makes Mercurial very lightweight and easy to start us...

Mercurial makes it easy to share your work, and to pull in contributions from other developers. This involves three key steps; cloning, pulling, and pushing. Clone To copy a remote repository to your local disk you "clone" it. To do so simply pass the remote URL you'd like to clone from....

When we’re first starting our work, we have to decide if this is a separate area of work we’re working on, or is this part of an existing line of work. If it’s existing, we can work off of that branch. If it’s new, we’ll start a new branch. Our workflow then is: hg branch MyNewFeature work wo...