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Mercurial

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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 supports a multitude of workflows and can enhance its functionality with extensions.

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Mercurial: The right alternative to Git

Incentivized
Jakub WilkView profile
President & Co-Founder in Information Technology at Enovatio (1-10 employees employees)

Pros

  • Branch
  • Distributed architecture
  • Stable
  • Platform independent

Cons

  • Integration with visual studio
  • More integrated tools
  • When I install Mercurial I always have to do a hard restart of my computer.

Return on Investment

  • Improve time in merging
  • Branching enables us to keep separate version per customer
  • Good tool for programmers is sometimes a reason to stay

Alternatives Considered

Git and Microsoft Visual Studio Team System

Other Software Used

Microsoft Office 365, Axure RP, Telerik, Microsoft Power BI, Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft Project