Work easier
Work faster
Mercurial is a free, distributed source control management tool. It efficiently handles projects of any size and offers an easy and intuitive interface.
How you can benefit from Mercurial
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It is
fast and powerful
Mercurial efficiently handles
projects of any size and kind
. Every clone contains the whole project history, so most actions are local, fast and convenient. Mercurial supports a multitude of
workflows
and you can easily enhance its functionality with
extensions
.
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It is
easy to learn
You can follow our simple
guide
to learn how to revision your documents with Mercurial, or just use the
quick start
to get going instantly. A short overview of Mercurial's decentralized model is also
available
.
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And it just works
Mercurial strives to deliver on each of its promises. Most tasks simply work on the first try and without requiring arcane knowledge.
Quick Start
Clone a project and push changes
$ hg clone https://www.mercurial-scm.org/repo/hello
$ cd hello
$ (edit files)
$ hg add (new files)
$ hg commit -m 'My changes'
$ hg push
Create a project and commit
$ hg init (project-directory)
$ cd (project-directory)
$ (add some files)
$ hg add
$ hg commit -m 'Initial commit'
