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        <h1>Work easier <br> Work faster</h1>
        <h2>Mercurial is a free, distributed source control management tool. It efficiently handles projects of any size and offers an easy and intuitive interface.</h2>
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        <h3>How you can benefit from Mercurial</h3>
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                It is <a href="/about">fast and powerful</a>
                <p>Mercurial efficiently handles <a href="/who">projects of any size and kind</a><!--Reference: https://www.mercurial-scm.org/wiki/ProjectsUsingMercurial -->. Every clone contains the whole project history, so most actions are local, fast and convenient. Mercurial supports a multitude of <a href="https://www.mercurial-scm.org/wiki/WorkingPractices">workflows</a> and you can easily enhance its functionality with <a href="https://www.mercurial-scm.org/wiki/UsingExtensions">extensions</a>.</p>
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                It is <a href="/learn">easy to learn</a><!-- point to a site which begins with a random "easy to learn" testimonial and then shows ways to learn Mercurial, from quick start to indepth -->
                <p>You can follow our simple <a href="/guide">guide</a> to learn how to revision your documents with Mercurial, or just use the <a href="/quickstart">quick start</a> to get going instantly. A short overview of Mercurial's decentralized model is also <a href="https://www.mercurial-scm.org/wiki/UnderstandingMercurial">available</a>.<!--If you already know Subversion, please see <a href="mercurial_for_svn_users">Mercurial for svn users</a>.--></p>
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                And it just works
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                <p>Mercurial strives to deliver on each of its promises. Most tasks simply work on the first try and without requiring arcane knowledge. <!--(If one doesn't, that's most likely no feature but a <a href="https://bz.mercurial-scm.org/">bug</a>. Please <a href="https://bz.mercurial-scm.org/">tell us about it</a>!)
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        <h3>Quick Start</h3>

        <p><em>Clone a project and push changes</em>
<pre class="wrap">$ hg clone https://www.mercurial-scm.org/repo/hello
$ cd hello
$ (edit files)
$ hg add (new files)
$ hg commit -m 'My changes'
$ hg push

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<p><em>Create a project and commit</em>
<pre class="wrap">$ hg init (project-directory)
$ cd (project-directory)
$ (add some files)
$ hg add
$ hg commit -m 'Initial commit'
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