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Mercurial, the Glossary

Mercurial is a distributed revision control tool for software developers.^[1]

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Distributed version control systems
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Apache Subversion

Apache Subversion (often abbreviated SVN, after its command name svn) is a version control system distributed as open source under the Apache License. Mercurial and Apache Subversion are cross-platform free software, free software programmed in C and free version control software.

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Atlassian

Atlassian Corporation is an Australian-American software company that develops products for software developers, and project managers among other groups.

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Binary file

A binary file is a computer file that is not a text file.

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Bitbucket

Bitbucket is a Git-based source code repository hosting service owned by Atlassian.

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BitKeeper

BitKeeper is a discontinued software tool for distributed revision control of computer source code. Mercurial and BitKeeper are distributed version control systems, free version control software and version control systems.

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C (programming language)

C (pronounced – like the letter c) is a general-purpose programming language.

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Chemical symbol

Chemical symbols are the abbreviations used in chemistry, mainly for chemical elements; but also for functional groups, chemical compounds, and other entities.

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Command-line interface

A command-line interface (CLI) is a means of interacting with a computer program by inputting lines of text called command-lines.

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Comparison of version-control software

The following tables describe attributes of notable version control and software configuration management (SCM) software systems that can be used to compare and contrast the various systems. Mercurial and Comparison of version-control software are version control systems.

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Diff

In computing, the utility diff is a data comparison tool that computes and displays the differences between the contents of files.

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Distributed version control

In software development, distributed version control (also known as distributed revision control) is a form of version control in which the complete codebase, including its full history, is mirrored on every developer's computer. Mercurial and distributed version control are distributed version control systems and free version control software.

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Eric (software)

eric is a free integrated development environment (IDE) used for computer programming. Mercurial and Eric (software) are cross-platform free software and free software programmed in Python.

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Facebook

Facebook is a social media and social networking service owned by American technology conglomerate Meta.

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Free software

Free software, libre software, libreware or rarely known as freedom-respecting software is computer software distributed under terms that allow users to run the software for any purpose as well as to study, change, and distribute it and any adapted versions.

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Free Software Foundation

The Free Software Foundation (FSF) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization founded by Richard Stallman on October 4, 1985, to support the free software movement, with the organization's preference for software being distributed under copyleft ("share alike") terms, such as with its own GNU General Public License.

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FreeBSD

FreeBSD is a free and open-source Unix-like operating system descended from the Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD).

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GForge

GForge is a commercial service originally based on the Alexandria software behind SourceForge, a web-based project management and collaboration system which was licensed under the GPL.

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Git

Git is a distributed version control system that tracks versions of files. Mercurial and Git are 2005 software, distributed version control systems, free software programmed in C, free version control software and version control systems.

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GitHub

GitHub is a developer platform that allows developers to create, store, manage and share their code.

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GitLab

GitLab Inc. is an open-core company that operates GitLab, a DevOps software package that can develop, secure, and operate software. Mercurial and GitLab are cross-platform free software, distributed version control systems and free version control software.

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Glitch, Inc.

Glitch, Inc. (previously known as Fog Creek Software) is a software company specializing in project management tools.

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GNU General Public License

The GNU General Public License (GNU GPL or simply GPL) is a series of widely used free software licenses, or copyleft, that guarantee end users the four freedoms to run, study, share, and modify the software.

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GNU Health

GNU Health is a free/libre health and hospital information system with strong focus on public health and social medicine.

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GNU Multiple Precision Arithmetic Library

GNU Multiple Precision Arithmetic Library (GMP) is a free library for arbitrary-precision arithmetic, operating on signed integers, rational numbers, and floating-point numbers. Mercurial and GNU Multiple Precision Arithmetic Library are free software programmed in C.

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GNU Octave

GNU Octave is a scientific programming language for scientific computing and numerical computation. Mercurial and GNU Octave are cross-platform free software.

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GNU Savannah

GNU Savannah is a project of the Free Software Foundation initiated by Loïc Dachary, which serves as a collaborative software development management system for free Software projects.

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Google Groups

Google Groups is a service from Google that provides discussion groups for people sharing common interests.

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Graphical user interface

A graphical user interface, or GUI, is a form of user interface that allows users to interact with electronic devices through graphical icons and visual indicators such as secondary notation.

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HTTP

HTTP (Hypertext Transfer Protocol) is an application layer protocol in the Internet protocol suite model for distributed, collaborative, hypermedia information systems.

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IcedTea

IcedTea is a build and integration project for OpenJDK launched by Red Hat in June 2007.

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InfoWorld

InfoWorld (IW) is an American information technology media business.

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Integrated development environment

An integrated development environment (IDE) is a software application that provides comprehensive facilities for software development.

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James Gosling

James Gosling (born 19 May 1955) is a Canadian computer scientist, best known as the founder and lead designer behind the Java programming language.

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Kallithea (software)

Kallithea is a cross-platform free software source code management system, the primary goal of which is to provide a repository hosting service with features for collaboration, such as forking, pull requests, code review, issue tracking etc. Mercurial and Kallithea (software) are free software programmed in Python.

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Larry McVoy

Larry McVoy (born 1962 in Concord, Massachusetts, United States) is the CEO of BitMover, the company that makes BitKeeper, a version control system that was used from February 2002 to early 2005 to manage the source code of the Linux kernel.

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LEMON (C++ library)

LEMON is an open source graph library written in the C++ language providing implementations of common data structures and algorithms with focus on combinatorial optimization tasks connected mainly with graphs and networks.

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Linus Torvalds

Linus Benedict Torvalds (born 28 December 1969) is a Finnish-American software engineer who is the creator and lead developer of the Linux kernel.

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Linux

Linux is both an open-source Unix-like kernel and a generic name for a family of open-source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991, by Linus Torvalds. Mercurial and Linux are free software programmed in C.

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Linux kernel

The Linux kernel is a free and open source, UNIX-like kernel that is used in many computer systems worldwide. Mercurial and Linux kernel are free software programmed in C.

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Linux kernel mailing list

The Linux kernel mailing list (LKML) is the main electronic mailing list for Linux kernel development, where the majority of the announcements, discussions, debates, and flame wars over the kernel take place.

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LiquidFeedback

LiquidFeedback is free software for political opinion formation and decision making, combining aspects of representative and direct democracy.

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List of version-control software

This is a list of notable version control software systems. Mercurial and list of version-control software are version control systems.

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MacOS

macOS, originally Mac OS X, previously shortened as OS X, is an operating system developed and marketed by Apple since 2001.

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Mercury (element)

Mercury is a chemical element; it has symbol Hg and atomic number 80.

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Merge (version control)

In version control, merging (also called integration) is a fundamental operation that reconciles multiple changes made to a version-controlled collection of files.

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Microsoft Windows

Microsoft Windows is a product line of proprietary graphical operating systems developed and marketed by Microsoft.

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Mozdev.org

mozdev.org was a website that offered free project hosting, and software development tools to the Mozilla community.

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Mozilla

Mozilla (stylized as moz://a) is a free software community founded in 1998 by members of Netscape.

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Nginx

Nginx (pronounced "engine x", stylized as NGINX or nginx) is a web server that can also be used as a reverse proxy, load balancer, mail proxy and HTTP cache. Mercurial and nginx are cross-platform free software and free software programmed in C.

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OpenJDK

OpenJDK (Open Java Development Kit) is a free and open-source implementation of the Java Platform, Standard Edition (Java SE).

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Orthanc (server)

Orthanc is a standalone DICOM server.

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OSDN

OSDN (formerly SourceForge.JP) is a web-based collaborative development environment for open-source software projects.

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Perforce

Perforce Software, Inc. is an American developer of software used for developing and running applications, including version control software, web-based repository management, developer collaboration, application lifecycle management, web application servers, debugging tools, platform automation, and agile planning software.

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Phabricator

Phabricator is a suite of web-based development collaboration tools, which includes a code review tool called Differential, a repository browser called Diffusion, a change monitoring tool called Herald, a bug tracker called Maniphest, and a wiki called Phriction.

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Pidgin (software)

Pidgin (formerly named Gaim) is a free and open-source multi-platform instant messaging client, based on a library named libpurple that has support for many instant messaging protocols, allowing the user to simultaneously log in to various services from a single application, with a single interface for both popular and obsolete protocols (from AIM to Discord), thus avoiding the hassle of having to deal with new software for each device and protocol. Mercurial and Pidgin (software) are cross-platform free software and free software programmed in C.

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Plain text

In computing, plain text is a loose term for data (e.g. file contents) that represent only characters of readable material but not its graphical representation nor other objects (floating-point numbers, images, etc.). It may also include a limited number of "whitespace" characters that affect simple arrangement of text, such as spaces, line breaks, or tabulation characters.

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Python (programming language)

Python is a high-level, general-purpose programming language. Mercurial and Python (programming language) are cross-platform free software.

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RhodeCode

RhodeCode is an open source self-hosted platform for behind-the-firewall source code management. Mercurial and RhodeCode are distributed version control systems, free software programmed in Python and free version control software.

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Roundup (issue tracker)

Roundup is an open-source issue or bug tracking system featuring a command-line, web and e-mail interface. Mercurial and Roundup (issue tracker) are free software programmed in Python.

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Rust (programming language)

Rust is a general-purpose programming language emphasizing performance, type safety, and concurrency.

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Secure Shell

The Secure Shell Protocol (SSH) is a cryptographic network protocol for operating network services securely over an unsecured network.

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SHA-1

In cryptography, SHA-1 (Secure Hash Algorithm 1) is a hash function which takes an input and produces a 160-bit (20-byte) hash value known as a message digest – typically rendered as 40 hexadecimal digits.

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Simple DirectMedia Layer (SDL) is a cross-platform software development library designed to provide a hardware abstraction layer for computer multimedia hardware components.

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Software development

Software development is the process used to create software.

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SourceForge

SourceForge is a web service that offers software consumers a centralized online location to control and manage open-source software projects and research business software.

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SourcePuller

SourcePuller is an open-source client for accessing the BitKeeper version control system. Mercurial and SourcePuller are 2005 software, free software programmed in C and free version control software.

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Sweden

Sweden, formally the Kingdom of Sweden, is a Nordic country located on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe.

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Tiling window manager

In computing, a tiling window manager is a window manager with an organization of the screen into mutually non-overlapping frames, as opposed to the more common approach (used by stacking window managers) of coordinate-based stacking of overlapping objects (windows) that tries to fully emulate the desktop metaphor.

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TortoiseHg

TortoiseHg is a GUI front-end for Mercurial that runs on Microsoft Windows (on which it integrates directly with File Explorer), Mac OS X, and Linux. Mercurial and TortoiseHg are distributed version control systems, free software programmed in Python and free version control software.

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Tryton

Tryton is a three-tier high-level general purpose computer application platform on top of which is built an enterprise resource planning (ERP) business solution through a set of Tryton modules.

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Unix-like

A Unix-like (sometimes referred to as UN*X or *nix) operating system is one that behaves in a manner similar to a Unix system, although not necessarily conforming to or being certified to any version of the Single UNIX Specification.

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Version control

Version control (also known as revision control, source control, and source code management) is the software engineering practice of controlling computer files and versions of files; primarily source code text files, but generally any type of file. Mercurial and version control are distributed version control systems and version control systems.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercurial

Also known as Hg (software), Hg (vcs), Hg (version control), Hg software, Hg vcs, Matt Mackall, Mercurial (RCS), Mercurial (software), Mercurial cvs, Mercurial software, Mercurial vcs.

, Orthanc (server), OSDN, Perforce, Phabricator, Pidgin (software), Plain text, Python (programming language), RhodeCode, Roundup (issue tracker), Rust (programming language), Secure Shell, SHA-1, Simple DirectMedia Layer, Software development, SourceForge, SourcePuller, Sweden, Tiling window manager, TortoiseHg, Tryton, Unix-like, Version control, WinDirStat, World Wide Web Consortium, XEmacs, Xine.

Mercurial, the Glossary

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See also

Distributed version control systems

Free version control software

Version control systems

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