Mercurial

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A free, distributed source control management tool

What is Mercurial?

Mercurial is dedicated to speed and efficiency with a sane user interface. It is written in Python. Mercurial's implementation and data structures are designed to be fast. You can generate diffs between revisions, or jump back in time within seconds.
Mercurial is a tool in the Version Control System category of a tech stack.

Who is using it?

47 companies use Mercurial in their tech stacks, including Bitbucket, Deveo, and Yomali.

Bitbucket

Deveo

Yomali

Eyereturn Marketing

Jitbit

wedontuse

Techno

Generali Hellas

emotion.me

PagueVeloz

Qonvoy

Performance Assessment Network (PAN)

Why developers like Mercurial

A lot easier to extend than git
Easy-to-grasp system with nice tools
Works on windows natively without cygwin nonsense
Written in python
Free
Fast
Better than Git
Best GUI
Better than svn