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What is Mercurial?

Mercurial is a free, distributed source control management tool. It handles projects of any size and boasts an easy and intuitive interface. Mercurial handles projects of any size and kind. Every clone contains the whole project history, so most actions…

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What is Mercurial?

Mercurial is a free, distributed source control management tool. It handles projects of any size and boasts an easy and intuitive interface. Mercurial handles projects of any size and kind. Every clone contains the whole project history, so most actions are local, fast and convenient. Mercurial…

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Community Insights

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Users have made several recommendations based on their experiences with Mercurial. Here are the three most common ones:

Consider Mercurial for new projects or when migrating from other systems like SVN. According to users, Mercurial's implementation and data structures are designed for speed, making it a viable option for managing code repositories. It is suggested that those interested in Mercurial should give it a try without feeling the need to learn all its features right away.

Learn at least one other version control system (VCS) to compare with Mercurial. Users recommend exploring both distributed and centralized VCS options to gain a broader understanding of different tools and their capabilities. By doing so, one can make an informed decision about which VCS is best suited for their specific project requirements.

Consider GitHub as a popular choice for hosting repositories and taking advantage of its integrations with other tools. While users appreciate Mercurial's interface and the TortoiseHg graphical user interface (GUI), some are considering moving to GitHub and utilizing hg-git for a more robust ecosystem. Additionally, Bitbucket with native Mercurial repos is seen as a good option, especially for free private repositories.

Overall, users believe that Mercurial is a powerful and easy-to-use source code management (SCM) tool comparable to Git. However, they emphasize the importance of considering the overall strategy and requirements of the project before choosing an SCM solution. It is also suggested to give Mercurial a chance before opting for Git alternatives.

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Jakub Wilk | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
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Mercurial is used by whole company. It helps very much thanks to its architecture of a distributed source control management tool. We also implemented Mercurial within the whole process of development and at the end connect with team city solution that afterwards deploy the right version for customers. We also use very much a branch idea.
  • Branch
  • Distributed architecture
  • Stable
  • Platform independent
  • Integration with visual studio
  • More integrated tools
  • When I install Mercurial I always have to do a hard restart of my computer.
If you generally think that to develop software you have to choose one repository, then in my opinion you have to choose between Mercurial and Git, there is not other solution. Mercurial also has a good merge tool which i can recommend. This gives you the flexibility to push just the "part of the feature", and is much better suited in the case where the "part of feature" and some other "part of the feature" both contain changes to the same file.
  • Improve time in merging
  • Branching enables us to keep separate version per customer
  • Good tool for programmers is sometimes a reason to stay
When we chose Mercurial it was more popular from perspectives than Git and we have too many problems with the Microsoft team foundation solution. We also want to move from a centralized version of source control to a distributed one. We also were working more and more via the Internet with our source control so distributed version was only solution.
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