hg

Most commands look like Git, we will focus on differences.

Decentralized.

History

Also developed for the kernel after the BitKeeper incident, but Git won, and mercurial will fall into oblivion.

Written in Python. Should be much cleaner than Git. But harder to make a libgit2 on top as well.

update

git checkout:

hg update -r revision

ls-tree

locate

hg locate | grep path

remote

paths

Show remotes:

hg paths

branches

List all branches.

tags

List all branches.

purge

git clean http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2760283/does-mercurial-have-an-equivalent-to-git-clean

hg purge

Also remove ignored files:

hg purge --all

Check current commit

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4330631/how-can-i-find-my-working-revision-in-mercurial

hg update something
hg parents