__NOTOC__ TortoiseHg is a GUI front-end for

Mercurial Mercurial is a distributed revision control tool for software developers. It is supported on Microsoft Windows and Unix-like systems, such as FreeBSD, macOS, and Linux. Mercurial's major design goals include high performance and scalabilit ...

that runs on Microsoft Windows (on which it integrates directly with

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, and

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. It is written in

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(except the Windows shell extension), and the underlying client can be used on the

command line A command-line interpreter or command-line processor uses a command-line interface (CLI) to receive commands from a user in the form of lines of text. This provides a means of setting parameters for the environment, invoking executables and pro ...

. It is often recommended and preferred for working with Mercurial on Windows. This is a brief list of its features: * Repository explorer * Commit dialog * Support for visual

diff In computing, the utility diff is a data comparison tool that computes and displays the differences between the contents of files. Unlike edit distance notions used for other purposes, diff is line-oriented rather than character-oriented, but i ...

merge Merge, merging, or merger may refer to: Concepts * Merge (traffic), the reduction of the number of lanes on a road * Merge (linguistics), a basic syntactic operation in generative syntax in the Minimalist Program * Merger (politics), the com ...

tools. * Data mining on repository contents * Seamless support for serving a repository via Mercurial's integrated web interface. * Repository synchronization * Intuitive GUI for managing Mercurial settings It is free software released under the GNU General Public License. TortoiseHg can be used as a client to a

git Git () is a distributed version control system: tracking changes in any set of files, usually used for coordinating work among programmers collaboratively developing source code during software development. Its goals include speed, data integ ...

server. In June 2020, TortoiseHg moved off of bitbucket when they stopped hosting mercurial projects, and found a new home with heptapod.

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* Distributed version control systems Free version control software Free software programmed in Python Version control GUI tools Software that uses Qt {{free-software-stub

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