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Development Repositories

Main: The main development repository of the Mercurial maintainer Matt Mackall can be found at https://www.mercurial-scm.org/repo/hg.
Committers: The development repository of the Mercurial core contributors can be found at https://www.mercurial-scm.org/repo/hg-committed/.

Mercurial supports a multitude of workflows and you can easily enhance its functionality with extensions. It is easy to learn. You can follow our simple guide to learn how to revision your documents with Mercurial, or just use the quick start to get going instantly. A short overview of Mercurial's decentralized model is also available. TortoiseHg is a Windows shell extension and a series of applications for the Mercurial distributed revision control system. It also includes a Gnome/Nautilus extension and a CLI wrapper application so the TortoiseHg tools can be used on non-Windows platforms. MacHg is a native OSX GUI client for Mercurial. It is modern and fully multi-threaded using Grand Central Dispatch and threading goodness. It has a clean interface and allows multiple repositories. MacHg MacHg is a free open source OSX GUI for the distributed revision control system Mercurial. This allows you in a nice graphical way to manage a collection of files, to add things to the collection, to save a snapshot of the collection, to restore the collection to an earlier state and in general to work with the files.

See Developer Repositories on the wiki for a full list.

Requirements

Python: Mercurial uses Python (version 2.7). Most ready-to-run Mercurial distributions include Python or use the Python that comes with your operating system.

Older Releases

Python versions: For more information about version support, see Supported Python Versions on the wiki.
Python 2.6: Mercurial 4.2.3 is the last release to support Python 2.6. Use this if you need to run Mercurial on old platforms and you cannot update your Python installation.
Python 2.5: Mercurial 3.4.2 is the last release to support Python 2.5. Use this if you need to run Mercurial on very old platforms and you cannot update your Python installation.
Python 2.4: Mercurial 3.4.2 is the last release to support Python 2.4. Use this if you need to run Mercurial on very old platforms and you cannot update your Python installation.
Python 2.3: Mercurial 1.2.1 is the last release to support Python 2.3. Use this if you need to run Mercurial on very old platforms and you cannot update your Python installation.
Older source releases: All previous source releases are available to download.

Get started

Mercurial is written in Python with platform independence in mind. As a result, Mercurial is available on Microsoft Windows, GNU/Linux, Mac OS X, Solaris 11 Express and others. You can either download a binary package for the system of your choice or build it from sources.

Windows users are likely to enjoy the TortoiseHg GUI the most. It integrates Mercurial directly into your explorer.

Packages for common Linux, BSD and Solaris distributions can be installed from the system specific repositories:

(Ubuntu: If you need a more recent version than what is available through apt-get, you can try the PPA.)

Mercurial
Developer(s)	Matt Mackall
Initial release	19 April 2005; 15 years ago^[1]
Stable release	3.6.2^[2] / 1 December 2015; 4 years ago
Written in	Python and C
Operating system	Unix-like, MS Windows, Mac OS X
Type	Revision control
License	GNU GPL v2+
Website	www.mercurial-scm.org

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. It is supported on MS Windows and Unix-like systems, such as FreeBSD, Mac OS X and Linux. Mercurial is primarily a command line program but graphical user interface extensions are available. All of Mercurial's operations are invoked as arguments to its driver program hg, a reference to the chemical symbol of the element mercury.

Mercurial's major design goals include high performance and scalability, decentralized, fully distributed collaborative development, robust handling of both plain text and binary files, and advanced branching and merging capabilities, while remaining conceptually simple.^[3] It includes an integrated web interface. Mercurial has also taken steps to ease the transition for users of other version control systems, particularly Subversion.

The creator and lead developer of Mercurial is Matt Mackall. Mercurial is released as free software under the terms of the GNU GPL v2 (or any later version^[4]).

5Adoption

History

Mackall first announced Mercurial on 19 April 2005.^[1] The impetus for this was the announcement earlier that month by Bitmover that they were withdrawing the free version of BitKeeper.

BitKeeper had been used for the version control requirements of the Linux kernel project. Mackall decided to write a distributed version control system as a replacement for use with the Linux kernel. Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game (MMORPG). This project started a few days after another project called Git, initiated by Linus Torvalds with similar aims.^[5]

The Linux kernel project decided to use Git rather than Mercurial, but Mercurial is now used by many other projects (see below). 'Git vs. Mercurial' has become one of the holy wars of hacker culture.^[6]

In an answer on the Mercurial mailing list, Matt Mackall explained how the name 'Mercurial' was chosen:^[7]

Shortly before the first release, I read an article about the ongoing Bitkeeper debacle that described Larry McVoy as mercurial (in the sense of 'fickle'). Given the multiple meanings, the convenient abbreviation, and the good fit with my pre-existing naming scheme (see my email address), it clicked instantly. Mercurial is thus named in Larry's honor. I do not know if the same is true of Git.

In 2013, Facebook adopted Mercurial and began work on scaling it to handle their large, unified code repository.^[8]

Design

Mercurial uses SHA-1 hashes to identify revisions. For repository access via a network, Mercurial uses an HTTP-based protocol that seeks to reduce round-trip requests, new connections and data transferred. Mercurial can also work over ssh where the protocol is very similar to the HTTP-based protocol. By default it uses a 3-way merge before calling external merge tools.

Usage

Hg Gui Mac

Figure 1 shows some of the most important operations in Mercurial and their relations to Mercurial's concepts.

Figure 1: Some important operations of Mercurial and their relations.

Related software

Screenshot of hgk in action

Screenshot of TortoiseHg client history

GUI interfaces for Mercurial include:
TortoiseHg
TortoiseHg is a cross-platform GUI for Mercurial. Most Mercurial operations can be invoked from the graphical interface. It can be used stand-alone on Windows, Mac OS X, or Linux.^[9] It can also be integrated with Windows Explorer^[10] and GNOME Nautilus.^[11] On Windows, the TortoiseHg installer bundles Mercurial and Python.
MacHg
MacHg is a free and fast multithreaded front end for Mac OS X 10.6 and later.^[12]
SourceTree
A freeware Mac OS X and Windows GUI client developed by Atlassian that works with both Mercurial and Git.^[13]
Hgk
This was the original log viewer for Mercurial. It is implemented as a Mercurial extension with a tcl/tk frontend. It was originally based on a similar tool for Git called gitk. This viewer is now considered an unloved feature.^[14] Recommended alternatives are hgview^[15] or TortoiseHg.
Murky
A Mac OS X GUI in Objective-C 2.0, runs on Mac OS X 10.5 and later.^[16]
MacMercurial
A Mac OS X GUI 'not intended to completely replace command line use of Mercurial, only to ease the most common Mercurial operations,' for Mac OS X 10.4 or later.^[17]
EasyMercurial
A simple user interface for the Mercurial distributed version control system. It's free, open source, and cross-platform.^[18]
hgtui
A freeTUI client for Linux and Windows (using cygwin).^[19]
Related tools for merging include (h)gct (Qt) and Meld.^[20]
The convert extension allows import from CVS, Darcs, Git, GNU Arch, Monotone, Perforce, Bazaar and Subversion repositories.
Microsoft Visual Studio supports Mercurial with the VisualHG^[21] and HgSccPackage^[22] plugins.
NetBeans supports Mercurial from Version 6.
Eclipse supports Mercurial with the MercurialEclipse^[23] plugin.
GNU Emacs has support for Mercurial in its VC extension.

Adoption

Although Mercurial was not selected to manage the Linux kernel sources, it has been adopted by several organizations, including Facebook,^[24] the W3C, and Mozilla.

Source code hosting

The following websites provide free source code hosting for Mercurial repositories:

Bitbucket by Atlassian
CodePlex by Microsoft^[25]
Codebase^[26]
JavaForge (with pull requests to control source code contribution)
Project Kenai by Oracle
GNU Savannah by FSF
Alioth by Debian
Kiln by Fog Creek Software
Others^[27]

Open source projects using Mercurial

Some projects using the Mercurial distributed RCS:^[28] Midnight commander for mac.

Adblock Plus^[29]
Coin3D^[30]
Dovecot IMAP server^[31]
Illumos^[32]
MoinMoin wiki software
Mozilla^[33]
NetBeans^[34]
Ogre3D^[35]
OpenJDK^[36]
OpenIndiana^[37]