Introducing Mercurial, a distributed version control system
According to its developers, "Mercurial
is a fast, lightweight Source Control Management system designed for
efficient handling of very large distributed projects." Dozens of projects already use the software. Here’s how you can get started with some basic version control tasks using Mercurial.
Mercurial is a open distributed version control system. According to Wikipedia,
distributed revision control takes a peer-to-peer approach, as opposed
to the client-server approach of centralized systems. Rather than a
single, central repository with which clients synchronize, each peer’s
working copy of the codebase is a bona fide repository. Synchronization
is conducted by exchanging changesets, which define unique versions of
every file, from peer to peer.
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