Learn Mercurial#
Some links to resources for learning Mercurial, sorted by length
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Get started using Mercurial and understanding its basic concepts.
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Learn the basic Mercurial commands. A bit more verbose than the short quick start above.
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Easily use Mercurial integrated into the Windows Explorer.
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Learn using Mercurial step by step in workflows. This guide skips the conceptual explanations to focus only on the practical usage.
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“Our goal with this article is to re-state some of the evolutions that Mercurial has seen over the past few years and to review some of its strong points and weaknesses.”
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In this user-friendly, six-part tutorial, Joel Spolsky teaches you the key concepts of Mercurial. Also includes a section explaining the differences between SVN and Mercurial.
Mercurial: The Definitive Guide (“hgbook”)
The free book from Bryan O’ Sullivan gives a detailed and easy to read introduction to Mercurial and the philosophy behind it.
Further resources
A wiki-page with links. If you’ve written a guide yourself, maybe for your team or for friends of yours, please add it! (It might be useful to have such a page in the wiki!)