get-involved.html Mercurial terminology

[Daniel J Sebald]

It's been years since I read the Mercurial manual, so I can't exactly 
recall the concepts.  From what I do remember, the expression "check 
out" isn't something that should be used in reference to Mercurial.  Hg 
is a distributed source control system meaning that developers make 
changes on their local system then later resolve any discrepancy when 
integrating their changed version with the canonical version.

Hence, the following from the Get Involved wiki page isn't quite accurate:

"Assuming you have Mercurial installed on your machine you may check out 
the latest development version of Octave sources with the following command:
hg clone http://www.octave.org/hg/octave

Once you have the repository checked out, you can resync with the 
archive by doing
hg -v pull
hg -v update"

I propose changing "you may check out the latest" to "you may acquire 
the latest", or "you may copy the latest".  Also, I propose dropping 
"checked out" in the second sentence to simply "Once you have the 
repository, you can resync with the archive...", or "Once you have the 
repository local to your system, you can resync...".

Another small addition would be to use the word "verbose" somewhere in 
the -v option description, because that is what it means, e.g., "The 
verbose option (-v)..." or "The -v verbose option...".  It's not really 
necessary, but it's a memory aid for new users.

Dan