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Mercurial: an alternative to git [LWN.net]

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Without subscribers, LWN would simply not exist. Please consider signing up for a subscription and helping to keep LWN publishing. September 14, 2005 This article was contributed by Jake Edge. Mercurial, like BitKeeper, git and others is targeted at projects where the developers are spread out geographically and need to be able to perform source code management functions without the bottleneck of a central repository. Matt adopted the design goals that Linus used for git (speed, distributed operation, and trustability) and added the additional constraints that it should be CPU, storage, and bandwidth efficient. Mercurial is written in Python, with some C extensions for CPU intensive pieces and is fairly small, weighing in around 7500 lines of code. Disk based storage of Mercurial revisions is done using delta compressed revision logs (revlogs) that are stored with disk access optimization in mind. The revlogs are stored in a directory structure that mirrors the structure of the project

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