Mercurial
Mercurial is a fast, lightweight Source Control Management
system designed for efficient
handling of very large distributed projects.
Mercurial's major design goals include high performance and
scalability, decentralized, fully distributed collaborative
development, robust handling of both plain text and binary files, and
advanced branching and merging capabilities, while remaining
conceptually simple.
The software includes an integrated stand-alone web
interface.
Mercurial is used by a number of large projects that require
fast, reliable distributed revision
control, such as Xen, OpenSolaris, Python and MoinMoin.
Features include:
- Extremely high-performance delta-compressed storage scheme
- Scales very easily
- Lightweight
- Optimized for disk layout and access efficiency
- Complete cross-indexing of files
and changesets
- O(1) delta-compressed file storage and retrieval scheme
- Bandwidth and CPU efficient HTTP and SSH sync protocols
- High-speed HTTP-based network merge protocol
- Complete cross-indexing of files and changesets for
efficient exploration of project history
- Robust SHA1-based integrity checking and append-only
storage model
- Distributed development model supports unlimited numbers of
developers
- Allows arbitrary merging between developer branches
- Doesn't significantly degrade with large numbers of files
or changesets
- No waiting for locks
- SHA1 integrity checking on repository data
- Append-only storage model with transaction journalling
- Fast full-repository verification
- Convenient backup
- Most commands are familiar to users of CVS and other
systems
- Built-in command help
- Integrated stand-alone web interface
- Works with various GUI tools
- Small Python codebase
- Easy to customize
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