Bug#308873: ITP: mercurial -- scalable distributed SCM

[Jay Berkenbilt <qjb@debian.org>]

Vincent Danjean <Vincent.Danjean@ens-lyon.org> wrote:

I'm making some English corrections. :-)

> Package: wnpp
> Severity: wishlist
> Owner: Vincent Danjean <Vincent.Danjean@ens-lyon.org>
>
> * Package name    : mercurial
>   Version         : 0.4e
>   Upstream Author : Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
> * URL             : http://selenic.com/mercurial
> * License         : GPL
>   Description     : scalable distributed SCM
>
> Mercurial is a very efficient distributed SCM. It is very similar to git
> (the SCM used by Linus for the kernel), but does not take so many place
> to save data (it stores diff instead of plain file for modified files)

Mercurial is a very efficient distributed SCM. It is very similar to git
(the SCM used by Linus for the kernel), but does not take so much space
to save data (it stores diffs instead of plain files for modified files).

>>From the upstream author, mercurial is a new proof-of-concept SCM. The
> goals are:
>    * to initially be as simple (and thereby hackable) as possible
>    * to be as scalable as possible
>    * to be memory, disk, and bandwidth efficient
>    * to be able to do "clone/branch and pull/sync" style
>    * development