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| Intland launches distributed revision control support for Mercurial |
Mercurial is an emerging cross-platform, distributed revision control system for software developers. Distributed revision control (or Distributed Version Control Systems DVCS, or Decentralised Version Control) is a fairly recent innovation in software revision control. Mercurial provides some significant advantages over the more traditional centralised approach to revision control, and it has some defining characteristics that separate it from centralised systems such as CVS, Subversion and others.
Mercurial versus Subversion?Why do we need yet another version control system? Sun Microsystems' openJDK (better known as Java), OpenSolaris, NetBeans projects and Mozilla.org are all using Mercurial. Mercurial is a distributed version control system, rather than have one repository and many child repositories it can host a complete hierarchy or repositories that can also be geographically dispersed. There is thus no 'central' repository and each repository has it's own version of the history of the contents.Clearvision offer Mercurial Support, Mercurial Training and Mercurial Consulting, a Mercurial plugin is also now available for CodeBeamer. |
