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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

• 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