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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.

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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.

Development by Synergize.digital

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