Mercurial is a [[GPLv2]] licensed version control system written in [[Python]]. - [Website](https://www.mercurial-scm.org/) - [Source](https://repo.mercurial-scm.org/hg) - [Documentation](https://book.mercurial-scm.org/read/) - [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercurial) > QUOTE # Notability Mercurial was my favored SCM between 2008-ish and 2011-ish. After which not only did [[git|Git]] have a stranglehold on the market, but also Git had gotten stable enough that I hated it less. The biggest reason though, was probably [[GitHub]], which provided a nice UI and collaboration tools which Mercurial-based solutions were left trying to catch up with. I'm not aware of any nice local [[SCM Hosting]] solutions for Mercurial comparable to any of the ones that support Git. ## Adoption > it has been adopted by several organizations, including Facebook, the W3C, and Mozilla. ## Descendants - [[Sapling]] is a fork of Mercurial by [[Facebook]] # Philosophy # OS Support # Features # Tips # References