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Mercurial is:
- Fast
- Extremely high-performance delta-compressed storage scheme
- Optimized for disk layout and access efficiency
- Complete cross-indexing of files and changesets
- Bandwidth and CPU efficient HTTP and SSH sync protocols
- Scalable
- Decentralized 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!
- Robust
- SHA1 integrity checking on repository data
- Append-only storage model with transaction journalling
- Fast full-repository verification
- Convenient backup
- Easy to use
- 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
- Easy to adopt
- Runs on UNIX, MacOS X, and Windows
- Conversion tools available for many popular SCMs
- Allows a variety of usage models
- Supports user-defined hooks and extensions
- Free
- Source code available under the GPL license
- Actively community supported and developed