Mercurial

Mercurial is a distributed source control management tool. The project describes it as fast, easy to learn and capable of handling projects of any size, with an intuitive interface. The project says most tasks should work on the first try without specialist knowledge, and that the tool is meant to keep its promises in everyday use.

What Mercurial offers

• Distributed history — every clone holds the whole project history, so most actions run locally.
• Flexible workflows — supports many working styles and can be extended with add-ons.
• Branching and merging — advanced committing, merging and branching for developers.
• Learning material — a simple guide, a quick start and an overview of its decentralised model.

Key facts

• Type: distributed revision control
• Extensions: supported