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Mercurial
An open-source, cross-platform, revision-control VCS. It is mainly written in Python and is supported on MS Windows and Unix-like systems. Mercurial has an intuitive user interface. It is used for keeping code histories secure, supporting various workflows and projects of different size.
| First released | April 19, 2005 |
| Developed by | Matt Mackall |
| Latest stable version | Mercurial 6 |
| Open-source | Yes |
| Used by | Facebook, CubicWeb, Adium |
Interesting facts
Facebook adopted Mercurial in 2013, as well as did several other organizations, to handle their large code repository.
