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- Access control
- The acl extension allows or denies write access to branches and paths when receiving incoming changesets.mercurial-scm.org · read 30 Sep 2026
- Community support
- Users can get help through the Matrix channel, IRC and the general Mercurial mailing list.mercurial-scm.org · read 30 Sep 2026
- Distributed architecture
- Each developer has a local copy of the entire development history and can work independently of network access or a central server.mercurial-scm.org · read 30 Sep 2026
- Extensibility
- Python extensions can add commands, change existing commands and access Mercurial core functionality.mercurial-scm.org · read 30 Sep 2026
- Installation methods
- Official installation instructions cover system packages, Windows winget, Homebrew, PyPI tools and source builds.mercurial-scm.org · read 30 Sep 2026
- Integrations
- Official extensions include Bugzilla hooks, Git command mapping, Git fast-export, email notifications and external diff tools.mercurial-scm.org · read 30 Sep 2026
- Open source license
- Mercurial is licensed under the GNU General Public License version 2 or any later version.mercurial-scm.org · read 30 Sep 2026
- Origin
- Work on Mercurial began in April 2005 with a goal of efficiently managing Linux-sized trees.mercurial-scm.org · read 30 Sep 2026
- Performance
- Mercurial is designed to handle projects of any size with fast diffs, commits, branching and merging.mercurial-scm.org · read 30 Sep 2026
- Product type
- Mercurial is a free, distributed source control management tool.mercurial-scm.org · read 30 Sep 2026
- Project governance
- The Mercurial project is run by its community and coordinated by committers and reviewers under a steering committee.mercurial-scm.org · read 30 Sep 2026
- Security limitation
- Mercurial documentation warns that auditing is insufficient to prevent clone-time code execution through carefully constructed Git subrepositories, which are disabled by default.mercurial-scm.org · read 30 Sep 2026
- Security reporting
- The project provides a moderated mercurial-security mailing list for private security discussion and reporting.mercurial-scm.org · read 30 Sep 2026
- Supported systems
- Binary releases are available for Microsoft Windows, GNU/Linux, macOS, Solaris 11 Express and other platforms.mercurial-scm.org · read 30 Sep 2026
