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What do you need to know about mercurial scm?


Asked by Junior Robbins on Dec 07, 2021 FAQ



Mercurial is a free, distributed source control management tool. It offers you the power to efficiently handle projects of any size while using an intuitive interface. It is easy to use and hard to break, making it ideal for anyone working with versioned files.
Also,
"hg push" and "hg pull" transfer nodes in the graph between two repositories. "hg update" updates the working copy to reflect a given node in the history graph. This also changes the parent changeset of the next commit, see "hg parents". And if you want to quickly look up something, you can use one of the Mercurial cheatsheets.
In fact, In many other version control systems, all developers commit changes to a single, centralized repository. In Mercurial, every developer typically works in his or her own repository. A fundamental concept of Mercurial is transferring changesets among repositories.
Next,
Mercurial: The Definitive Guide - a very detailed description of Mercurial including behind the scenes, an indepth article on the design of Mercurial. Understanding Mercurial - the concepts behind Mercurial. This guide doesn't require any prior knowledge of version control systems (though subversion users will likely feel at home quite quickly).
One may also ask,
A “plain wrong” changeset is not as common, but no less annoying. In sec:concepts:txn, I mentioned that Mercurial treats each modification of a repository as a transaction. Every time you commit a changeset or pull changes from another repository, Mercurial remembers what you did.