Also, where would I find them?
It's also referred to as a revision control system or Mercurial source control. It is used by software development teams to manage and track changes across projects. It launched in 2005. But its popularity has since faded.
Mercurial is a distributed revision control tool for software developer and it support Microsoft window. Git is distributed system which track the change in source code in which each developer has his repository.
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.
Mercurial, or hg, is a distributed source code management (SCM) system. Source code management systems, also called "version control systems", are tools that allow groups of programmers to work together on the same projects without getting in each others' way any more than is necessary.
Tortoise HG. All the tortoise goodness, now for Mercurial.
UPDATE july 2020: The original official website linked above is abandoned.
The project moved to: https://foss.heptapod.net/mercurial/tortoisehg/thg
IMO best GUI Hg client for OSX is SoureTree - http://sourcetreeapp.com
I was using MacHg, which is ok (and free), but SourceTree has better support, ongoing development and better workflow.
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