# HOW TO EDIT THIS FILE: # The "handy ruler" below makes it easier to edit a package description. Line # up the first '|' above the ':' following the base package name, and the '|' on # the right side marks the last column you can put a character in. You must make # exactly 11 lines for the formatting to be correct. It's also customary to # leave one space after the ':'. # This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. # It uses material from the Wikipedia article "Mercurial". |-----handy-ruler------------------------------------------------------| mercurial: mercurial (a distributed source management system) mercurial: mercurial: Mercurial is a cross-platform, distributed source management tool for mercurial: software developers. It is written in Python, with a binary diff mercurial: implementation written in C. Its major features include high- mercurial: performance; serverless, fully distributed collaborative development; mercurial: robust handling of both plain text and binary files; advanced mercurial: branching and merging capabilities; and full source code available mercurial: under the terms of the LGPL. mercurial: mercurial: Mercurial was written by Matt Mackall and other contributors.