Mercurial Manage very large distributed projects using this lightweight Source Control Management system
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Manage very large distributed projects using this lightweight Source Control Management system Mercurial is a fast, lightweight Source Control Management system designed for efficient handling of very large distributed projects.Hg: the chemical symbol for mercury, from the Greek hydrargyrum.Mercurial: relating to or having characteristics (eloquence, swiftness, thievishness, shrewdness) attributed to the god Mercury. Here are some key features of "Mercurial": 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 Mac OS X, UNIX and Windows · Conversion tools available for many popular SCMs · Allows a variety of usage models · Supports user-defined hooks and extensions What's New in This Release: regression fixes: · fix to prepush logic when it creates new heads · fix qseries truncation other: · doc fixes: formatting, missing options · tests fixes (now less dependent on environment variables) · inotify fixes · keyword: allow RCSfile like CVS · share: fix a bad interaction with clone · show non-default branch names with summary -q · new schemes extension · i18n updates

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