# The devel/mercurial port

## mercurial-2.4.2 – fast, lightweight source control management

## Description

    Mercurial is a distributed version control system which features:

    o Extremely high-performance delta-compressed storage scheme.
    o Optimized for disk layout and access efficiency.
    o Complete cross-indexing of files and changesets.
    o Bandwidth and CPU efficient HTTP and SSH sync protocols.
    o Distributed development model supports unlimited numbers of
      developers.
    o Allows arbitrary merging between developer branches.
    o Doesn't significantly degrade with large numbers of files or
      changesets.
    o No waiting for locks!
    o SHA1 integrity checking on repository data.
    o Append-only storage model with transaction journalling.
    o Fast full-repository verification.

WWW: http://www.selenic.com/mercurial/

Categories:
  devel lang/python

## Library dependencies

## Build dependencies

- STEM->=1.21:textproc/groff
- devel/gettext
- lang/python/2.7

## Run dependencies

- lang/python/2.7