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MacHg
MacHg is a free front end for the revision control system Mercurial. This means you manage a collection of files in a nice graphical way, adding things to the collection, saving a snapshot of the collection, restoring the collection to an earlier state and in general working with the files.
Revision control
Revision control systems have existed for a long time and Mercurial is among one of the newer, and better systems. Mercurial is a distributed version control system. For more on Mercurial see: Definitive Guide : revision control primer. Other modern distributed revision control systems are git and bazaar. There are various organizations which do commercial support of Mercurial.
MacHg Features
- Document based structure with multiple repositories per document
- View incoming and outgoing at a glance between compatible repositories
- Auto refreshes the status of tracked files when they change
- Incremental loading of history (for efficiency)
- Works with large repositories (ie for example can load and work with the Mozilla repository which is 3.35Gb)
- Fully compatible with command line Mercurial (You can make changes on the command line and they are reflected in MacHg.)
- Fully multi-threaded using Grand Central Dispatch and threading goodness
- File browser view to work with files
- History view to explore the changeset history
- Differences view to explore the historical changes between different revisions
- Interacting with other repositories: pull, push, incoming, outgoing, clone, etc
- Contextual menus and shortcuts in many places
- Diff multiple files at once
- Renaming, merging, updating, reverting, adding files, removing files, etc
- Add and remove local tags, global tags, bookmarks, and branches
- Interface to history editing: collapse, histedit, rebase, strip
- Importing and exporting of patches
- Works with external diff tools: AraxisMerge, kdiff3, DiffMerge, Changes, etc
- Uses the Sparkle framework for "in application" updates
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