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How is mercurial used in high profile projects?


Asked by Alondra Ochoa on Dec 07, 2021 FAQ



High-profile projects such as Java, i.e. OpenJDK have used Mercurial (but no longer does as of Java 16). Mercurial uses SHA-1 hashes to identify revisions. For repository access via a network, Mercurial uses an HTTP -based protocol that seeks to reduce round-trip requests, new connections, and data transferred.
Accordingly,
I chose to write about Mercurial because it is the easiest tool to learn the terrain with, and yet it scales to the demands of real, challenging environments where many other revision control tools buckle. There are a number of reasons why you or your team might want to use an automated revision control tool for a project.
In addition, Mercurial uniquely supports both of these scales of development. You can learn the basics in just a few minutes, and due to its low overhead, you can apply revision control to the smallest of projects with ease.
In respect to this,
It includes an integrated web-interface. Mercurial has also taken steps to ease the transition for users of other version control systems, particularly Subversion.
Consequently,
The first workflow is also the easiest one: You want to use Mercurial to be able to look back when you did which changes. This workflow only requires an installed Mercurial and write access to some file storage (you almost definitely have that :) ).