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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.
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.
## Versioning Concepts
### What is version control?
Version control is a system that records changes to a file(s), over time.
### Centralized Versioning VS Distributed Versioning
* Centralized version control focuses on synchronizing, tracking, and backing
up files.
* Distributed version control focuses on sharing changes. Every change has a
unique id.
* Distributed systems have no defined structure. You could easily have a SVN
style, centralized system, with mercurial.
Version control is a system that keeps track fo changes to a set of file(s)
and/or directorie(s) over time.
### Why Use Mercurial
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#### Distributed Architecture
Traditional version control systems such as Subversion are typical
client-server architectures with a central server to store the revisions of a
project. In contrast, Mercurial is truly distributed, giving each developer a
local copy of the entire development history. This way it works independent of
network access or a central server. Committing, branching and merging are fast
and cheap.
Traditionally version control systems such as CVS and Subversion are a client server
architecture with a central server to store the revsion history of a project. Mercurial however
is a truly distributed architecture, giving each devloper a full local copy of the entire
development history. It works independently of a central server.
#### Fast
Mercurial's implementation and data structures are designed to be fast. You can
generate diffs between revisions, or jump back in time within seconds.
Therefore Mercurial is perfectly suitable for large projects such as OpenJDK
([hg](http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk7/jdk7)) or NetBeans
Mercurial is implemented to be fast. You are able to generate diffs between
revsions, and switch between tags and branches with little time and effort.
Mercurial is used by large projects such as OpenJDK
([hg](http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk7/jdk7)) and NetBeans
([hg](http://hg.netbeans.org/)).
#### Platform Independent
Mercurial was written with platform independence in mind. Therefore most of
Mercurial is written in Python, with a small part in portable C for performance
reasons. As a result, binary releases are available on all major platforms.
Mercurial was written to be highly platform independent. Much of Mercurial is
written in Python, with small performance critical parts written in portable
C. Binary releases are available for all major platforms.
#### Extensible
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#### Easy to Use
Mercurial sports a consistent command set in which most subversion users feel
right at home. Potentially dangerous actions are available via extensions you
need to enable, so the basic interface is easy to use, easy to learn and hard
to break. The [Quick Start](https://www.mercurial-scm.org/quickstart) should
get you going in a just few minutes.
The Mercurial command set is consistent with what subversion users would
expect, so they are likely to feel right at home. Most dangerous actions
are part of extensions that need to be enabled to be used.
#### Open Source
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| Term | Definition |
| ------------- | ---------------------------------- |
| Repository | Collection of revisions |
| hgrc | A file which stores defaults for a repository. Global is ~/.hgrc and local is .hgrc inside the repository |
| revision | Committed changeset, by REV number |
| changeset | Set of work changes saved as diffs |
| diff | Changes between files |
| tag | Name for a specific revision |
| parent(s) | Immediate ancestor(s) of revision or work |
| branch | Child of a revision |
| Repository | A repository is a collection of revisions |
| hgrc | A configuration file which stores the defaults for a repository. |
| revision | A committed changeset: has a REV number |
| changeset | Set of changes saved as diffs |
| diff | Changes between file(s) |
| tag | A named named revision |
| parent(s) | Immediate ancestor(s) of a revison |
| branch | A child of a revision |
| head | A head is a changeset with no child changesets |
| merge | The process of merging two HEADS |
| tip | Latest revision in any branch |
| patch | All diffs between two revisions |
| tip | The latest revision in any branch |
| patch | All of the diffs between two revisions |
| bundle | Patch with permis­sions and rename support |