Quick Topics

Terminology

What is a repository?

Opening and initialising things

Someone gave me a repository URL and asked me to clone it

I have a folder of source code or documents on my computer and I want to use version control to manage it

I want to start a completely new project using version control

I have a Mercurial repository on my local computer already and I want to use it with EasyMercurial

Making changes

I've added a new file: what do I do with it?

I have changed some files and I want to record the changes

I want to remove, rename, or copy a file

I just deleted a file using the system file manager – then remembered I hadn't told the version control tool about it – what now?

Sharing changes

I have committed some changes – how do I share them with my colleagues?

I want to let my colleagues pull changes from my local repository

I want to push my changes to a master repository shared with my colleagues