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mercurial-7.2.4

fast, lightweight source control management

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Description

Mercurial is a distributed version control system which features: - High-performance delta-compressed storage scheme. - Optimized for disk layout and access efficiency. - Complete cross-indexing of files and changesets. - Bandwidth and CPU efficient HTTP and SSH sync protocols. - Distributed development model supports unlimited numbers of developers. - Allows arbitrary merging between developer branches. - No waiting for locks. - Integrity checking on repository data. - Append-only storage model with transaction journalling. - Fast full-repository verification.

Package information

Ports path
devel/mercurial
Package architecture
amd64
Maintainer
The OpenBSD ports mailing-list <ports@openbsd.org>
Categories
devel, lang/python, x11/tk, lang/tcl
Available flavors
None listed
Only for architectures
aarch64, amd64, arm, i386, mips64, mips64el, powerpc, powerpc64, riscv64, sparc64, alpha, hppa

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