EasyMercurial

h1. An Introduction to Mercurial using easyHg

Mercurial is a distributed revision control tool. It is written in Python.

h2. Basic Commands

These are some of the commands you'll find in the easyMercurial interface:

*add*          add the specified files on the next commit

*commit*       commit the specified files or all outstanding changes

*diff*         diff repository (or selected files)

*incoming*     show new changesets found in source (in the easyMercurial interface this command is called Preview)

*merge*        merge working directory with another revision

*pull*         pull changes from the specified source

*push*         push changes to the specified destination

*revert*       restore individual files or directories to an earlier state

*update*       update working directory (or switch revisions)

h2. Typical Workflow

h3. Creating or Opening a Repository

h4. Local Repository

Allows you to open a local repository.

h4. File Folder

Allows you to initialize a local folder as a Mercurial repository.

h4. External Repository

If you have a remote repository URL and want to clone (make a copy of an existing repository) it to your local filesystem. 

Workflow

Updating local from remote: 

pull

update

h3. External resources

* For a simple tutorial on Mercurial (command line), please go to http://hginit.com/

* _Mercurial: The Definitive Guide_ by Bryan O'Sullivan is a reference book on Mercurial. You can read it for free here: http://hgbook.red-bean.com/