blog  Installing Mercurial on OSx 10.6.5.

Dec 2010

Mercurial is a free, distributed source control management tool. It efficiently handles projects of any size and offers an easy and intuitive. That's what you read on its website, at least. I decided to give it a go mainly because I was looking forward to use a decentralized version control system for a couple of side projects I'm working on; moreover, because a friend pointed out that BitBucket (an online free code-hosting service based on Mercurial) has a free plan that doesn't force you to make your projects public by default - like most other competitor services do. Free + private = time to test it!