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Basic idea of an about text. A lot is missing and the language is quite bad at the moment.

author	David Soria Parra <dsp@php.net>
date	Mon, 26 Jan 2009 05:46:32 +0100
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1 a90a46be8d31 Basic idea of an about text. A lot is missing and the language is quite bad at the moment. David Soria Parra <dsp@php.net> parents: diff changeset	1 Mercurial Distributed SCM
a90a46be8d31 Basic idea of an about text. A lot is missing and the language is quite bad at the moment. David Soria Parra <dsp@php.net> parents: diff changeset	2
a90a46be8d31 Basic idea of an about text. A lot is missing and the language is quite bad at the moment. David Soria Parra <dsp@php.net> parents: diff changeset	3 Mercurial is a distributed source control management tool. It aims to be a simple to use but powerful enough to handle large projects (<link>Project using Mercurial</link>). Mercurial is available on different platforms like Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, FreeBSD, OpenSolaris and others.
a90a46be8d31 Basic idea of an about text. A lot is missing and the language is quite bad at the moment. David Soria Parra <dsp@php.net> parents: diff changeset	4
a90a46be8d31 Basic idea of an about text. A lot is missing and the language is quite bad at the moment. David Soria Parra <dsp@php.net> parents: diff changeset	5 Distributed architecture
a90a46be8d31 Basic idea of an about text. A lot is missing and the language is quite bad at the moment. David Soria Parra <dsp@php.net> parents: diff changeset	6 Traditional version control systems such as CVS are typical client-server architectures with a central point to store the revisions of a project. In contrast, Mercurial is truly distribute, giving each developer a local copy of the entire development history.
a90a46be8d31 Basic idea of an about text. A lot is missing and the language is quite bad at the moment. David Soria Parra <dsp@php.net> parents: diff changeset	7
a90a46be8d31 Basic idea of an about text. A lot is missing and the language is quite bad at the moment. David Soria Parra <dsp@php.net> parents: diff changeset	8 Fast
a90a46be8d31 Basic idea of an about text. A lot is missing and the language is quite bad at the moment. David Soria Parra <dsp@php.net> parents: diff changeset	9 Mercurials implementation and data structures are designed to be fast. You can generate diffs between revisions, or jump back in time within seconds. Therefore Mercurial is perfectly suiteable for large projects such as OpenJDK or NetBeans.
a90a46be8d31 Basic idea of an about text. A lot is missing and the language is quite bad at the moment. David Soria Parra <dsp@php.net> parents: diff changeset	10
a90a46be8d31 Basic idea of an about text. A lot is missing and the language is quite bad at the moment. David Soria Parra <dsp@php.net> parents: diff changeset	11 Platform independent
a90a46be8d31 Basic idea of an about text. A lot is missing and the language is quite bad at the moment. David Soria Parra <dsp@php.net> parents: diff changeset	12 Mercurial was written with platform independence in mind. Therefore most of Mercurial is written in Python, with a small part written in C for performance reasons. As a result, binary releases are available on all major platforms.
a90a46be8d31 Basic idea of an about text. A lot is missing and the language is quite bad at the moment. David Soria Parra <dsp@php.net> parents: diff changeset	13
a90a46be8d31 Basic idea of an about text. A lot is missing and the language is quite bad at the moment. David Soria Parra <dsp@php.net> parents: diff changeset	14 Open Source
a90a46be8d31 Basic idea of an about text. A lot is missing and the language is quite bad at the moment. David Soria Parra <dsp@php.net> parents: diff changeset	15 Mercurial is licensed under the terms of the GNU General Public License Version 2.