A Mercurial-from-git guide

Question

I'm feeling there are some serious differences between Mercurial and git philosophy. This causes me to make mistakes often.

I'm looking for an everyday cheat sheet which explains:

• what is identical, just has different commands
• what differs and can cause problems

Thanks

Answer 1

There are startlingly few differences between Mercurial and git anymore. Mostly just differences in terminology around branching (what git calls a 'branch' Mercurial calls a "bookmark", and what Mercurial calls a "branch" has no analog in git). This page covers that pretty well: https://www.mercurial-scm.org/wiki/GitConcepts?highlight=%28gitconcepts%29

Also there's a great compare/contrast on branching in Mercurial and git at: http://stevelosh.com/blog/2009/08/a-guide-to-branching-in-mercurial/ which is written with git users as the primary audience

The bottom of that first link does have a table that shows how git's commands map to Mercurial's, but it's best to understand how conceptually and functionally similar they are rather than committing the conversions to memory.