What is Mercurial (TortoiseHg)?

Mercurial is a distributed version control system. Mercurial is used by Oracle for the OpenJDK development and offered as a option by Google in Google hosting. Mercurial is written in Python. Mercurial has a command-line interface. Eclipse provides also a plug-in to use Mercurial.

Mercurial supports many different collaboration models. This chapter describes just one of those models: a single central repository. The central repository model does not scale as well as other models, but it is the most familiar to those coming from other revision tools and thus is the most common approach people start with.


To get started, suppose you volunteer to create the central repository. There are ways to convert non-Mercurial repositories into Mercurial repositories, but this example assumes you are starting from scratch.

Some of the screenshots :

https://mcmblog.azurewebsites.net/how-to-use-tortoisehg/