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Advanced users of Mercurial can be aided with the use of Mercurial extensions. Extensions allow the integration of powerful new features directly into the Mercurial core.    Built-in help on extensions is available with ' hg help extensions '. To get help about an enabled extension, run ' hg help <extension-name> '. Convert Extension The Convert extension converts repositories from other SCMs (or even Mercurial itself) into Mercurial repositories, with options for filtering and renaming. It can also be used to filter Mercurial repositories to get subsets of an existing one. The current release supports the following repository types as sources: CVS Subversion Git Darcs Monotone Bazaar GNU Arch Mercurial Perforce Convert extension comes up together with Mercurial. To enable convert extension, add following lines in your configuration file, Edit your $ HOME/.hgrc which look ...

These commands are very much to the subversion. 1. Creating a repository (hg init)   Create a mercurial repository in an empty directory by using the init command: [root@localhost ~]# mkdir Test [root@localhost ~]# cd Test [root@localhost Test]# hg init [root@localhost Test]# ls -lar total 12 drwxr-xr-x. 3 root root 4096 May 21 06:42 .hg dr-xr-x---. 36 root root 4096 May 21 06:40 .. drwxr-xr-x. 3 root root 4096 May 21 06:42 . Now there is an empty repository created, locally in your directory. The repository contains both a working copy, and the repository data (the history information). 2. Adding a file (hg add) Schedule a file for addition [root@localhost Test]# echo "Testing1" >>test.txt [root@localhost Test]# ls -lar total 16 -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 9 May 21 06:47 test.txt drwxr-xr-x. 3 root root 4096 May 21 06:42 .hg dr-xr-x---. 36 root root 4096 May 21 06:40 .. drwxr-xr-x. 3 root root ...

Installation Windows : The best version of Mercurial for Windows is TortoiseHg, which can be found at http://tortoisehg.bitbucket.org/ . This package has no external dependencies. It “just works.” It provides both command-line and graphical user interfaces. After installation, you will have a right-click menu in Windows Explorer that gives you access to the graphical tools. After logging out and in again, you will also have a hg and a thg program available in a Command Prompt. You can use the thg program to start the graphical TortoiseHg tools. Command-line : (figure 1) GUI : (figure2) Linux : You can install Mercurial on Linux using package manager - yum install *mercurial* but installing it from package manager not assure you the latest version of mercurial. So, You can install the latest version(2.6) from source http://mercurial.selenic.com/release , unpack it and run make install to install it. If you get any issue...

Mercurial is a fast, lightweight Source Control Management system designed for efficient handling of very large distributed projects. It is mainly implemented using the Python programming language. It is supported on Windows and Unix-like systems, such as Mac OS X and Linux. All of Mercurial's operations are invoked as arguments to its driver program hg, a reference to the chemical symbol of the element mercury. Mercurial's major design goals include high performance and scalability, decentralized, fully distributed collaborative development, robust handling of both plain text and binary files, and advanced branching and merging capabilities, while remaining conceptually simple.  How you can benefit from Mercurial It is fast and powerful, It efficiently handles projects of any size and kind. Every clone contains the whole project history, so most actions are local, fast and convenient. Mercurial supports a multitude of workflows and you can easily enhance its fun...