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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 while offering an easy and intuitive interface.</h2>
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                            <h3>Mercurial Quick Start</h3>

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<p><em>Clone a project and create a patch</em></p>

<pre>$ hg clone http://hg-scm.org/hello
$ cd hello
$ (edit files)
$ hg add (new files)
$ hg commit -m 'My changes'
$ hg export > patch.diff

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<p><em>Create a project and commit</em></p>

<pre>$ cd (project-directory)
$ hg init
$ (add some files)
$ hg add
$ hg commit -m 'Initial commit'

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<!--Change into project dir before initiating repo to avoid a possible stumbling point. I'm not quite sure if this is the most elegant way for showing that, though. You're welcome to try and find a more elegant yet correct one!-->
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author	Arne Babenhauserheide <bab@draketo.de>
date	Tue, 17 Feb 2009 16:35:58 +0100
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