# mercurial mit Homebrew, apk, apt, dnf, MacPorts, Nix, pacman, zypper, scoop, winget, chocolatey installieren
Prüfe Installationswege, Executables, Metadaten und Sicherheitshinweise für mercurial in AI-Agent-Workflows.
## Installation
```sh
sudo av install brew:mercurial
```
## Antwort zur Agent-Sicherheit
mercurial mutates source-control repositories and remote history.
- **Credential-Zugriff:** Reads repository config, credential helpers, auth files, and local history.
- **Änderungen an Remote-Zustand:** Can push changesets, tags, bookmarks, and remote repository changes.
- **Publish-/Artefakt-Risiko:** Can publish source changes and release tags.
- **Empfohlene Kontrolle:** Gate pushes, credential reads, destructive history operations, and tag creation.
- **Hinweise für Agent-Nutzung:** Allow status/log/diff; require approval for pushes, credential use, and history rewrites.
Weitere Installationsbefehle:
### macOS
- Homebrew (100%):
```sh
brew install mercurial
```
Evidenz: local Homebrew formula metadata
- MacPorts (94%):
```sh
sudo port install mercurial
```
Evidenz: MacPorts ports tree: devel/mercurial/Portfile from https://api.github.com/repos/macports/macports-ports/git/trees/master?recursive=1
### Linux
- apk (92%):
```sh
sudo apk add mercurial
```
Evidenz: Alpine Linux edge package indexes: mercurial from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/community/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz
- Debian apt (92%):
```sh
sudo apt install mercurial
```
Evidenz: Debian stable package indexes: mercurial from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz
- dnf (92%):
```sh
sudo dnf install mercurial
```
Evidenz: Fedora Rawhide package metadata: mercurial from https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/07190dc5ae9f35ae73866675fed6d95fe6e8d9fe22c9d7cdf85862cb2ed24a4c-primary.xml.zst
- Nix (92%):
```sh
nix profile install nixpkgs#mercurial
```
Evidenz: nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/me/mercurial/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1
- pacman (92%):
```sh
sudo pacman -S mercurial
```
Evidenz: Arch Linux sync databases: mercurial from https://geo.mirror.pkgbuild.com/extra/os/x86_64/extra.db.tar.gz
- zypper (92%):
```sh
sudo zypper install mercurial
```
Evidenz: openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata: mercurial from https://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/repodata/50b07339cb64c8ed4091bdbabddadc1ff5737b090e478818a195b40d8a3292861a879139b4a3987c31109699fde9fbf4a716367ddf4eef77da75f96e3193d6ed-primary.xml.zst
### Windows
- Scoop (92%):
```sh
scoop install main/mercurial
```
Evidenz: Scoop official bucket manifest trees: bucket/mercurial.json from https://api.github.com/repos/ScoopInstaller/Main/git/trees/master?recursive=1
- winget (92%):
```sh
winget install --id Mercurial.Mercurial -e
```
Evidenz: Windows Package Manager source index: Mercurial.Mercurial from https://cdn.winget.microsoft.com/cache/source.msix
- Chocolatey (92%):
```sh
choco install hg
```
Evidenz: Chocolatey community package catalog: hg from http://community.chocolatey.org/api/v2/Packages?$filter=IsLatestVersion&$select=Id&$top=1000&$skiptoken='11','handbrake.install'
## Paketfakten
- **Paketschlüssel:** brew:mercurial
- **Paketmanager:** Homebrew
- **Version:** 7.2.3
- **Quellzusammenfassung:** Scalable distributed version control system
- **Homepage:**
- **Zuletzt aktualisiert:** 2026-06-29T18:50:44Z
- **Generiert:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00
## Executables
- chg (Alias)
- hg (Alias)
## Installationsverhalten
- Bottle: nicht verfügbar
## Version und Aktualität
- Seite generiert: 2026-08-03
- Manager-Version: 7.2.3
## Projektgeschichte und Nutzung
Mercurial is a distributed source-control management system invoked mainly through the hg command. Matt Mackall, later Olivia Mackall, started it in April 2005 after Linux kernel developers lost the free BitKeeper arrangement. The Architecture of Open Source Applications describes Mercurial and Git as parallel 2005 responses to the need for a scalable distributed VCS capable of handling large kernel-sized histories; it also notes Mackall's early goals of simplicity, scalability, and efficiency.
### Projektgeschichte
Technically, Mercurial stores project history as a distributed graph of changesets. Like Git, it uses SHA-1-derived changeset identifiers, but it emphasizes a comparatively small, coherent command set and a clone model where most operations are local. The official Mercurial site positions it as a free distributed SCM that handles projects of any size, supports many workflows, and can be extended.
### Adoptionsgeschichte
Mercurial's adoption history is strongly tied to large repositories and to teams that valued a scriptable CLI with a less sprawling user model than Git. Facebook selected Mercurial while replacing a Subversion server plus Git mirror, then published work on scaling it for a repository with thousands of weekly commits and hundreds of thousands of files. That scaling lineage later connected to Mononoke and Sapling: Meta's Sapling README says Sapling's CLI was originally based on Mercurial and shares aspects of Mercurial's UI and features, while Mononoke is described as a Mercurial source-control server for large monorepos.
### Wie es verwendet wird
For package managers, Mercurial is a classic cross-platform developer tool rather than an application-specific CLI. It appears across Homebrew, Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora, Arch, Nix, MacPorts, Windows package managers, and others, with hg as the primary executable and chg as a command server client for faster repeated commands.
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## Sicherheitshinweise
Für mercurial wurde kein passendes lokales Secret-Handling-Manifest gefunden. Nucleus-Paketmetadaten bleiben hier veröffentlicht, damit künftige Abdeckung eine stabile Paket-URL hat.
## Configuration and credential file locations
These source-backed paths show where this package keeps local settings or durable credentials. Automic Vault can use them as review targets for secret scanning, migration, and command approval.
## Configuration files
- Unix: ~/.hgrc, $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/hg/hgrc, ~/.config/hg/hgrc
## Credential files
- Unix: ~/.hgrc, $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/hg/hgrc, ~/.config/hg/hgrc
## Andere Paketmanager-Einträge
- Debian apt - mercurial - 7.0.1-2: normalized package name match | Debian stable package indexes: mercurial from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz | easy-to-use, scalable distributed version control system | https://www.mercurial-scm.org/
- Debian apt - mercurial-common - 7.0.1-2: normalized package name match | Debian stable package indexes: mercurial-common from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz | easy-to-use, scalable distributed version control system (common files) | https://www.mercurial-scm.org/
- Nix - mercurial: normalized package name match | nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/me/mercurial/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1
- Ubuntu apt - mercurial - 6.7.2-1ubuntu2: normalized package name match | Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: mercurial from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/universe/binary-amd64/Packages.gz | easy-to-use, scalable distributed version control system | https://www.mercurial-scm.org/
- Ubuntu apt - mercurial-common - 6.7.2-1ubuntu2: normalized package name match | Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: mercurial-common from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/universe/binary-amd64/Packages.gz | easy-to-use, scalable distributed version control system (common files) | https://www.mercurial-scm.org/
- apk - mercurial - 7.2.3-r0: normalized package name match | Alpine Linux edge package indexes: mercurial from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/community/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz | Scalable distributed SCM tool | https://www.mercurial-scm.org/
- apk - mercurial-bash-completion - 7.2.3-r0: normalized package name match | Alpine Linux edge package indexes: mercurial-bash-completion from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/community/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz | Bash completions for mercurial | https://www.mercurial-scm.org/
- apk - mercurial-chg - 7.2.3-r0: normalized package name match | Alpine Linux edge package indexes: mercurial-chg from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/community/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz | Client for Mercurial command server with cHg extension | https://www.mercurial-scm.org/
- apk - mercurial-doc - 7.2.3-r0: normalized package name match | Alpine Linux edge package indexes: mercurial-doc from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/community/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz | Scalable distributed SCM tool (documentation) | https://www.mercurial-scm.org/
- apk - mercurial-lang - 7.2.3-r0: normalized package name match | Alpine Linux edge package indexes: mercurial-lang from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/community/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz | translations for mercurial | https://www.mercurial-scm.org/
- apk - mercurial-pyc - 7.2.3-r0: normalized package name match | Alpine Linux edge package indexes: mercurial-pyc from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/community/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz | Precompiled Python bytecode for mercurial | https://www.mercurial-scm.org/
- apk - mercurial-vim - 7.2.3-r0: normalized package name match | Alpine Linux edge package indexes: mercurial-vim from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/community/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz | Vim syntax for mercurial | https://www.mercurial-scm.org/
- apk - mercurial-zsh-completion - 7.2.3-r0: normalized package name match | Alpine Linux edge package indexes: mercurial-zsh-completion from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/community/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz | Zsh completions for mercurial | https://www.mercurial-scm.org/
- dnf - mercurial - 7.2.3-5.fc45: normalized package name match | Fedora Rawhide package metadata: mercurial from https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/07190dc5ae9f35ae73866675fed6d95fe6e8d9fe22c9d7cdf85862cb2ed24a4c-primary.xml.zst | A fast, lightweight Source Control Management system | https://mercurial-scm.org/
- dnf - mercurial-chg - 7.2.3-5.fc45: normalized package name match | Fedora Rawhide package metadata: mercurial-chg from https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/07190dc5ae9f35ae73866675fed6d95fe6e8d9fe22c9d7cdf85862cb2ed24a4c-primary.xml.zst | A fast Mercurial command without slow Python startup | https://mercurial-scm.org/
- dnf - mercurial-hgk - 7.2.3-5.fc45: normalized package name match | Fedora Rawhide package metadata: mercurial-hgk from https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/07190dc5ae9f35ae73866675fed6d95fe6e8d9fe22c9d7cdf85862cb2ed24a4c-primary.xml.zst | Hgk interface for mercurial | https://mercurial-scm.org/
## Combined YAML source
View the package source record on GitHub. [combined/mercurial.yml](https://github.com/mxcl/pkgdb/blob/main/combined/mercurial.yml)
## Quellen
- pkg.so package database
- Geiger risk classifier
- curated configuration and credential file locations
- curated package history
- pkgdb category and tag curation
- external package-manager database matches
- cross-ecosystem install command graph
- curated agent safety answer