Mercurial

Mercurial

Original skaber(e)	Matt Mackall
Udgivet	20. april 2005[1]
Stabil version	5.7.1 (8. marts 2021)
Skrevet i	Python, C og Rust
Operativsystem	Unix-lignende, Windows, OS X
Type	Revisionskontrol
Licens	GNU General Public License v2
Hjemmeside	mercurial-scm.org

Mercurial er et frit, distribueret versionsstyringsystem.^[2] Det er primært implementeret i Python, men diff-funktionaliteten er implementeret i C.^[3] Derudover bruges Rust også til at forbedre ydeevnen. Mercurials funktionalitet tilgås som regel via kommandolinjeprogrammet hg, men grafiske brugergrænseflader eksisterer. Mercurial benyttes til revisionskontrol af adskillige fri software-projekter, bl.a.: Python og Mozilla Foundations software, f.eks. Firefox og Thunderbird.^[4] Mercurial benyttes også af Facebook, der har udvidet systemet til at kunne håndtere deres store monorepo.^[5]

1. ^ Mackall, Matt (20. april 2005). "Mercurial v0.1 - a minimal scalable distributed SCM" (Mailingliste). Arkiveret fra originalen 10. oktober 2008. Hentet 16. november 2012.
2. ^ Mercurial source control management, arkiveret fra originalen 15. november 2012, hentet 2012-11-16
3. ^ FAQ - Mercurial, arkiveret fra originalen 15. november 2010, hentet 2012-11-16, Mercurial diffs are calculated rather differently than those generated by the traditional diff algorithm (but with output that's completely compatible with patch of course). The algorithm is an optimized C implementation based on Python's difflib, which is intended to generate diffs that are easier for humans to read rather than be 'minimal'. This same algorithm is also used for the internal delta compression.
4. ^ J. Paul Reed (12. april 2007), Version Control System Shootout Redux Redux, arkiveret fra originalen 15. november 2012, hentet 2012-11-15
5. ^ Durham Goode and Siddharth P. Agarwal (7. januar 2014), Scaling Mercurial at Facebook, Facebook