Comparison between Mercurial

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SCM feature:	Mercurial	Add to comparison: +CVS +AccuRev +Aegis +AllChange +Arch +Bazaar +BitKeeper +ClearCase +CM+ +CMSynergy +Co-Op +Darcs +Git +LibreSource Synchronizer +Monotone +OpenCM +Perforce +PureCM +SourceAnywhere +Subversion +Superversion +Surround SCM +svk +Team Foundation Server +Vesta +Visual SourceSafe
Atomic Commits	Yes.
Files and Directories Moves or Renames	Yes. Renames are supported.
Intelligent Merging after Moves or Renames	No. the Mercurial book says: "When you use the 'hg rename' command, Mercurial makes a copy of each source file, then deletes it and marks the file as removed. "
File and Directories Copies	Yes. Copies are supported
Remote Repository Replication	Yes.
Propagating Changes to Parent Repositories	Yes.
Repository Permissions	Yes. It is possible to lock down repositories, subdirectories, or files using hooks.
Changesets' Support	Yes. Changesets are supported.
Tracking Line-wise File History	Yes. (hg annotate)
Ability to Work only on One Directory of the Repository	It is possible to commit changes only in a subset of the tree. There are plans for partial checkouts.
Tracking Uncommited Changes	Yes. Using hg diff.
Per-File Commit Messages	No.
Documentation	Very good. There is a companion book and a wiki. Every command has integrated help.
Ease of Deployment	Excellent. Binary packages are available for all popular platforms. Building from source requires only Python 2.3 (or later) and a C compiler.
Command Set	Tries to follow CVS conventions, but deviates where there is a different design.
Networking Support	Excellent. Uses HTTP or ssh. Remote access also works safely without locks over read-only network filesystems.
Portability	Excellent. Runs on all platforms supported by Python. Repositories are portable across CPU architectures and endian conventions.
Web Interface	Yes. The web interface is a bundled component.
Availability of Graphical User-Interfaces.	History viewing available with hgit extension; check-in extension (hgct) makes committing easier. Some third-party IDEs and GUI tools (e.g. eric3, meld) have integrated Mercurial support.