README
author Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Sun, 21 Jul 2013 18:45:42 -0500
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parent 16217 df5ecb813426
child 26421 4b0fc75f9403
permissions -rw-r--r--
heads: modernize documentation (issue3992) The old docs emphasized topological heads rather than branch heads and incorrectly defined branch heads as not having children rather than descendants.

Mercurial
=========

Mercurial is a fast, easy to use, distributed revision control tool
for software developers.

Basic install:

 $ make            # see install targets
 $ make install    # do a system-wide install
 $ hg debuginstall # sanity-check setup
 $ hg              # see help

Running without installing:

 $ make local      # build for inplace usage
 $ ./hg --version  # should show the latest version

See http://mercurial.selenic.com/ for detailed installation
instructions, platform-specific notes, and Mercurial user information.