Mercurial

Mercurial is a cross-platform, distributed revision control tool for software developers. It is mainly implemented using the Python programming language, but includes a binary diff implementation written in C. Mercurial was initially written to run on Linux. It has been ported to Windows, Mac OS X, and most other Unix-like systems. Mercurial is primarily a command line program but graphical user interface extensions are available. All of Mercuria... more

First Released:

  • Apr 19, 2005

Also known as:

  • hg
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