I wanted an examples based Mercurial tutorial, which was quick and to-the-point, without a lot of theory or principles of operation. Here it is, without prating.
I am writing a book about distributed revision control because I believe that it is an important subject that deserves a field guide. I chose to write about Mercurial because it is the easiest tool to learn the terrain with, and yet it scales to the
Mercurial是一个跨平台的分布式版本控制软件，主要由Python语言实现，但也包含一个用C语言实现的二进制比较工具。Mercurial一开始的主要运行平台是Linux，现在Mercurial已经被移植到Windows、Mac OS X和大多数的类Unix系统中。Mercurial主要由一个命令行程序组成，现在也有了图形用户界面。对Mercurial的所有操作都由用不同的关键字作为参数调用程序“hg”来实现，Hg是参考水银的化学符号而取的名字。 Mercurial的主要设计目标包括高性能、
