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author | Arne Babenhauserheide <bab@draketo.de> |
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date | Sun, 15 Feb 2009 16:47:13 +0100 |
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--- a/src/en/about.html Fri Feb 13 15:55:54 2009 +0100 +++ b/src/en/about.html Sun Feb 15 16:47:13 2009 +0100 @@ -33,12 +33,12 @@ <div class="row"> <div class="col big"> <h1>Mercurial source control management</h1> - <p><strong>Mercurial is a free, distributed source control management tool. It offers you the power to efficiently handle projects of any size while using an easy, intuitive interface. It is easy to use and hard to break, making it ideal for anyone working with versioned files. + <p><strong>Mercurial is a free, distributed source control management tool. It offers you the power to efficiently handle projects of any size while using an intuitive interface. It is easy to use and hard to break, making it ideal for anyone working with versioned files. </strong></p> <h2>Distributed architecture</h2> - <p>Traditional version control systems such as SVN are typical client-server architectures with a central server to store the revisions of a project. In contrast, Mercurial is truly distributed, giving each developer a local copy of the entire development history. This way it works independent of network access or a central server. Committing, branching and merging are fast and cheap.</p> + <p>Traditional version control systems such as Subversion are typical client-server architectures with a central server to store the revisions of a project. In contrast, Mercurial is truly distributed, giving each developer a local copy of the entire development history. This way it works independent of network access or a central server. Committing, branching and merging are fast and cheap.</p> <h2>Fast</h2> @@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ <h2>Platform independent</h2> - <p>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.</p> + <p>Mercurial was written with platform independence in mind. Therefore most of Mercurial is written in Python, with a small part in portable C for performance reasons. As a result, binary releases are available on all major platforms.</p> <h2>Extensible</h2> @@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ <h3>Similar projects</h3> - <p>Mercurial is used for version control of files. Similar projects include <a href="http://www.git-scm.org">git</a>, <a href="http://bazaar-vcs.org">bazaar</a>, <a href="http://subversion.tigris.org/">Subversion</a> and <a href="http://www.nongnu.org/cvs/">CVS</a>. + <p>Mercurial is used for version control of files. Similar projects include <a href="http://www.git-scm.org">git</a>, <a href="http://bazaar-vcs.org">Bazaar</a>, <a href="http://subversion.tigris.org/">Subversion</a> and <a href="http://www.nongnu.org/cvs/">CVS</a>. </div> <div class="col"> <h2>Download Mercurial</h2>