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# Learn Mercurial

Some links to resources for learning Mercurial, sorted by length

- [Quick Start](./quickstart.md)

  Get started using Mercurial and understanding its basic concepts.

- [Quick Start from the wiki](https://www.mercurial-scm.org/wiki/QuickStart)

  Learn the basic Mercurial commands. A bit more verbose than the short quick start
  above.

- [TortoiseHg Quick Start](https://tortoisehg.readthedocs.org/en/latest/quick.html)

  Easily use Mercurial integrated into the Windows Explorer.

- [Workflow guide](./guide.md)

  Learn using Mercurial step by step in workflows. This guide skips the conceptual
  explanations to focus only on the practical usage.

- [Modern Mercurial](https://octobus.net/blog/2020-11-26-modern-mercurial)

  "Our goal with this article is to re-state some of the evolutions that Mercurial has
  seen over the past few years and to review some of its strong points and weaknesses."

- [Hg Init: a Mercurial tutorial](http://hginit.com/)

  In this user-friendly, six-part tutorial, Joel Spolsky teaches you the key concepts of
  Mercurial. Also includes a section explaining the differences between SVN and
  Mercurial.

- [Mercurial: The Definitive Guide ("hgbook")](http://book.mercurial-scm.org/)

  The free book from Bryan O' Sullivan gives a detailed and easy to read introduction to
  Mercurial and the philosophy behind it.

- *Further resources*

  *A wiki-page with links. If you've written a guide yourself, maybe for your team or for
  friends of yours, please add it! (It might be useful to have such a page in the wiki!)*