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Review on Mercurial by Jim Reinhardt

Revainrating 4 out of 5

Intuitive version control system built by contributors

I like that it's open-source and self-hosted.It also has great documentation for basic use cases, which are extremely helpful compared to other similar tools such as git or mercurial itself.The UI could be better but most things can be learned with just enough time investment.I have been using this for over 2 years now and haven't experienced anything problematic yet, so far it seems pretty solid! We're using it primarily in our web development workflow and we don't need much beyond what comes out of the box (we do occasionally pull from github repos).

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Pros
  • Easy setup/installation no installation required; you simply download hg client binaries via package managers / pip etc.Easy branching & mergingGreat interoperability between version control systemsGood docsQuickly learnableUI is intuitiveNo dependencies neededMinimal configuration necessary
Cons
  • Not very user friendly GUI interface.
  • Documentations not always up2date