Mercurial Project

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Published on October 9, 2007 3:10:33 AM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1sV8Z_Lmpt4

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Google TechTalks
June 19, 2006

Bryan O'Sullivan is a Senior Principal Engineer at QLogic, Inc, where he works on HPC clustering and compiler technologies. He likes to write software tools that help other engineers, and to build interesting distributed systems. He is an enthusiastic rock climber of sadly limited facility.

ABSTRACT
Mercurial is a free distributed revision control system. It focuses on conceptual simplicity, robustness, and high performance. Well-known open source projects that use Mercurial include OpenSolaris, Xen, and One Laptop Per Child.This talk presents some of the advantages of using Mercurial to manage large, fast-moving projects.

We give a brief overview of the...