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# Mercurial

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> Distributed revision control tool with advanced committing, merging, and branching capabilities for software developers.
> 
> Verdict: Rated **3.9/5** by 10 users. Top-rated for **Likelihood to recommend**.

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## Overview

### Who Uses Mercurial?

Mercurial serves developers, programmers, software engineers, version control and source code management users, open source contributors, and technology professionals.

## Quick Stats & Ratings

| Metric | Rating | Detail |
| **Overall** | **3.9/5** | 10 Reviews |
| Ease of Use | 4.1/5 | Based on overall reviews |
| Customer Support Software | 2.7/5 | Based on overall reviews |
| Value for Money | 4.3/5 | Based on overall reviews |
| Features | 3.8/5 | Based on overall reviews |
| Recommendation percentage | 80% | (8/10 Likelihood to recommend) |

## About the vendor

- **Company**: Mercurial

## Commercial Context

- **Pricing model**: Other (Free version available)
- **Pricing Details**: Mercurial is a free resource that is licensed under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2. It is available for download online on the Mercurial website.
- **Target Audience**: Self Employed, 2–10, 11–50, 51–200, 201–500, 501–1,000, 1,001–5,000, 5,001–10,000, 10,000+
- **Deployment & Platforms**: Mac (Desktop), Windows (Desktop), Linux (Desktop), Windows (On-Premise), Linux (On-Premise)
- **Supported Languages**: Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese, Czech, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Lithuanian, Russian, Thai, Ukrainian
- **Available Countries**: United States

## Features

- Change Management Software
- Code Review
- Version Control

## Support Options

- Knowledge Base Software

## Category

- [Source Code Management Software](https://www.capterra.in/directory/31420/source-code-management/software)

## Alternatives

1. [Visual Studio Code](https://www.capterra.in/software/186634/visual-studio-code) — 4.8/5 (1687 reviews)
2. [GitLab](https://www.capterra.in/software/159806/gitlab) — 4.6/5 (1215 reviews)
3. [Bitbucket](https://www.capterra.in/software/157785/bitbucket) — 4.6/5 (1343 reviews)
4. [PhpStorm](https://www.capterra.in/software/186624/phpstorm) — 4.8/5 (157 reviews)
5. [Azure DevOps Server](https://www.capterra.in/software/177262/team-foundation-server) — 4.5/5 (144 reviews)

## Reviews

### "My Experience with git tool Mercurial" — 2.0/5

> **Verified Reviewer** | *8 March 2025* | Information Technology & Services | Recommendation rating: 3.0/10
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> **Pros**: It has very simple work flow without any complexity.
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> **Cons**: Very limited features, very less security tools. It has very less community so no login with mercurial provided on collaboration sites.
> 
> As a beginner its competitive platforms CI/CD features are far more better than this, very less features provided in free tier.

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### "Easy GIT" — 5.0/5

> **Jeff** | *23 January 2019* | Computer Software | Recommendation rating: 10.0/10
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> **Pros**: Simple easy gui on windows
Straight forward command set
Integrates with IDEs
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> **Cons**: Not as full featured out of the box as git but still very powerful and useful
> 
> Great experience,  easy learning curve rock solid performance

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### "Simple and effective" — 5.0/5

> **Dylan** | *16 January 2024* | Computer Software | Recommendation rating: 6.0/10
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> **Pros**: I like how simple Mercurial is. It bears a lot of resemblance to Git, but does away with some of the complexities. It's very fast, and simple to use.
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> **Cons**: The ecosystem for Mercurial is very small, and the plugins, tools and community support is just not there. It's a fine tool if you like the base functionality, but if you need graphical UIs or extensions, you might suffer.
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> On the whole I enjoyed using Mercurial, it was one of my very first experiences with a version control system and helped me learn the ropes. But I didn't stay with it for long before I needed to learn Git for work and ended up enjoying using that more.

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### "An easier (but more limited) option than git" — 4.0/5

> **Emanuele** | *17 February 2024* | Internet | Recommendation rating: 8.0/10
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> **Pros**: Mercurial is an easy and intuitive code versioning system, its commands are simple and it is difficult to initiate destructive operations on the code base.
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> **Cons**: Unfortunately (in my opinion) it is poorly (almost not at all) supported on commercial platforms and for this reason its adoption is very low. It is probably less powerful than git (this can be a pro and a con).
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> Mercurial was my first code versioning system and for personal or small team use it is perfect. However, if you work on large distributed projects or have more advanced needs, it could be limiting for your work, also because it is much less known than other systems (read "git plus github").

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### "A very simple to begin with version control tool" — 4.0/5

> **Verified Reviewer** | *1 March 2023* | Information Technology & Services | Recommendation rating: 7.0/10
> 
> **Pros**: It is significantly easy to use, even the UI, commands are good to follow up with easily. Offers a large number of external extensions or plugins. With its distributed system architecture it is fast no doubt. Branching is not resource heavy because it is cheap. So, it is sufficiently powerful for basic to medium needs.
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> **Cons**: Not as powerful and feature-rich compared to other version control tools, especially when it comes to cloning, replication, rollbacks to name a few. Even the update rollouts are slow and it looks outdated.
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> Used it for a little more than a year and it has been a pleasant and a decent experience using it for our development needs.

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