This page describe the study of Mercurial (henceforth known as Hg) as a possible candidate to replace both [“CVS”] and [“Perforce”] for the FreeBSD Project.

You must have fully read the main [“VersionControl”] page for a set of requirements and processes currently used by the FreeBSD Project in its day-to-day operations, from basic VCS usage to release engineering.

Hg is being used by several FOSS projects and vendors.

• [http://opensolaris.org/ OpenSolaris] has selected Hg as its main VCS

• [http://www.xensource.com/ Xen] has been using Hg for several months now

• [http://audacious-media-player.org/Main_Page Audacious Media Player] project switched to Hg recently

• [http://www.mozilla.org Mozilla] project will probably [http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/preed/2007/04/version_control_system_shootou_1.html switch] to Mercurial as their main VCS too

Some people are now converting entire repositories and exposes them to the world:

• FreeBSD has several converted repositories available [http://hg.fr.freebsd.org/ here]

• The FreeBSD doc/ tree, is available at an [http://hg.hellug.gr/doc alternative location] too. Contact: GiorgosKeramidas

• pkgsrc, the portable source-based package management used by NetBSD and available on several OS has now Hg mirrors [http://hg.scode.org/mirror/pkgsrc here]. Conversion is being handled by [http://wikitest.freebsd.org/VCSFeatureCVSImport cvs20hg]