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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
  • 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!
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 (example)

  • Works with various GUI tools

Easy to adopt
Free

MajorFeatures (last edited 2009-11-03 17:51:40 by abuehl)