Mercurial for Beginners: The Definitive Practical Guide
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Inspired by Git for beginners: The definitive practical guide.
This is a compilation of information on using Mercurial for beginners for practical use.
Beginner - a programmer who has touched source control without understanding it very well.
Practical - covering situations that the majority of users often encounter - creating a repository, branching, merging, pulling/pushing from/to a remote repository, etc.
Notes:
- Explain how to get something done rather than how something is implemented.
- Deal with one question per answer.
- Answer clearly and as concisely as possible.
- Edit/extend an existing answer rather than create a new answer on the same topic.
- Please provide a link to the the Mercurial wiki or the HG Book for people who want to learn more.
Questions:
Installation/Setup
- How to install Mercurial?
- How to set up Mercurial?
- How do you create a new project/repository?
- How do you configure it to ignore files?
Working with the code
- How do you get the latest code?
- How do you check out code?
- How do you commit changes?
- How do you see what's uncommitted, or the status of your current codebase?
- How do you destroy unwanted commits?
- How do you compare two revisions of a file, or your current file and a previous revision?
- How do you see the history of revisions to a file?
- How do you handle binary files (visio docs, for instance, or compiler environments)?
- How do you merge files changed at the "same time"?
Tagging, branching, releases, baselines
- How do you 'mark' 'tag' or 'release' a particular set of revisions for a particular set of files so you can always pull that one later?
- How do you pull a particular 'release'?
- How do you branch?
- How do you merge branches?
- How do you merge parts of one branch into another branch?
Other
- Good GUI/IDE plugin for Mercurial? Advantages/disadvantages?
- Any other common tasks a beginner should know?
- How do I interface with Subversion?
Other Mercurial references
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