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"Ben Finney" <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> wrote in message 
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> "Frank Millman" <frank@chagford.com> writes:
>
>> I feel that I have just not grasped the basics yet, so any assistance 
>> that
>> puts me on the right path is appreciated.
>
> Here is "Hg Init", a tutorial for Mercurial <URL:http://hginit.com/>.
>
> ("source control" is not the most common term for this; what we're
> talking about is a "version control system", or VCS. But some Git users
> may disagree.)
>

Thanks, Ben, that is a really nice tutorial.

I was calling it an SCM because that is how Mercurial describes it - from 
their home page "Mercurial is a free, distributed source managment control 
tool". I do agree that 'version control' makes more sense.

Frank