(see also TipsAndTricks)

Mercurial Frequently Asked Questions

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1. General Questions

1.1. What is the license of the project?

The project is available under the GNU General Public License, v2. See COPYING in the release for more details.

2. Common Problems

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3. Terminology

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4. General Usage

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5. Tags

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6. Bugs and Features

6.1. I found a bug, what do I do?

Report it to the mercurial mailing list, mercurial@selenic.com or in the bug tracker http://www.selenic.com/mercurial/bts/

6.2. What should I include in my bug report?

Enough information to reproduce or diagnose the bug. If you can, try using the hg -v and hg -d switches to figure out exactly what Mercurial is doing.

If you can reproduce the bug in a simple repository, that is very helpful. The best is to create a simple shell script to automate this process, which can then be added to our test suite.

6.3. Can Mercurial do <x>?

If you'd like to request a feature, send your request to mercurial@selenic.com. As Mercurial is still very new, there are certainly features it is missing and you can give us feedback on how best to implement them.

Be sure to see ToDo and MissingFeatures to see what's already planned and where we need help.

7. Web Interface

Find the URL for the file and then replace the changeset identifier with tip.

7.2. How do I change the style of the web interface to the visually more attractive gitweb?

In [http://www.selenic.com/mercurial/hgrc.5.html hgrc] set

[web]
style = gitweb

To switch back to the default style specify "style = default" (see [http://hgbook.red-bean.com/hgbookch6.html#x10-1390006.6.5 hgbook]).

8. Technical Details

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9. Mercurial Book

See ["/MercurialBook"].