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Mercurial is... 
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Mercurial is a free, distributed source control management tool. It offers you the power to handle projects of any size along with a very intuitive interface. 

Every Mercurial clone is a full-fledged repository with complete history and full revision tracking capabilities, so it is independent of network access or a central server. Committing, branching and merging are fast and cheap. 

Mercurial is used for version control of files, much like tools such as Git, Bazaar, Subversion and CVS. It is available on many different platforms, including Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, FreeBSD and OpenSolaris. 


Projects using Mercurial
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Get Mercurial
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If you're using Windows, download TortoiseHG. ![TortoiseHG Logo]()

GNU/Linux: Just [get it from your package manager](link to a simple guide for the different distros). 

MacOSX: Download (app). 


Mercurial Quick start
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Cloning and Creating a Patch

$ hg clone http://bitbucket.org/ArneBab/hello_world
$ cd hello_world
$ (edit files)
$ hg add (new files)
$ hg commit -m 'My changes'
$ hg export > patch.diff

Creating and Commiting

$ hg init (project-directory)
$ (add some files)
$ hg add
$ hg commit -m 'Initial commit'

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