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Main page: Added draft for Get Mercurial and Quick Start. Also did some reworking of Mercurial is...
author Arne Babenhauserheide <bab@draketo.de>
date Sat, 07 Feb 2009 19:16:47 +0100
parents ee901315cf85
children 3fbb1c1b9e89
files Main.txt
diffstat 1 files changed, 38 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) [+]
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--- a/Main.txt	Sat Feb 07 18:42:29 2009 +0100
+++ b/Main.txt	Sat Feb 07 19:16:47 2009 +0100
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 Mercurial is... 
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-Mercurial is a free, distributed source control management tool. It offers the power to handle large projects yet stays very easy to use. 
+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 available on many different platforms, including Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, FreeBSD, OpenSolaris and others. 
 
+
+Projects using Mercurial
+------------------------
+
+
+Get Mercurial
+-------------
+
+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
+---------------------
+
+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'
+
+Footer
+------
+