Git vs. Mercurial

Git

73 Reviews and Ratings

Mercurial

8 Reviews and Ratings

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Git	Score10 out of 10	N/A	N/A	N/A
Mercurial	Score9.1 out of 10	N/A	Mercurial is a free, distributed source control management tool. It handles projects of any size and boasts an easy and intuitive interface. Mercurial handles projects of any size and kind. Every clone contains the whole project history, so most actions are local, fast and convenient. Mercurial supports a multitude of workflows and can enhance its functionality with extensions.	N/A

Pricing

Git

Mercurial

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Pricing Offerings
Git	Mercurial
Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
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Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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No setup fee

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Community Pulse
Key User Insights
	Git	Mercurial
Considered Both Products	Open Source Nate Dillon Front-End Web Developer, Office of Mediated Education in Information Technology at Kansas State University (Higher Education, 5001-10,000 employees) Chose Git The two main alternatives to Git that I know about are Mercurial and Subversion. I've never used either one, but I know a bit about Subversion. From what I remember, Subversion requires a server. I don't anyone using any other source control other than Git, it seems to have … Incentivized Helpful? Nikolay Rogoshchenkov R&D Project Engineer in Engineering at Innovative Scientific Solutions Inc (Aviation & Aerospace, 51-200 employees) Chose Git After using Subversion previously for years, Git comes across as the new and improved source control approach. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Git Git is by far the best version control system out there. It's open source, free, and fast. No other version control system I've ever used has had all three features. Incentivized Helpful? Rene Enriquez Member of the Technical Staff in Information Technology at ioet ltd (Information Technology and Services, 11-50 employees) Chose Git Those products work well with small teams but when you have a large company with a huge group of developers working they introduce complexity at the moment of keeping an eye on the code and deal with versioning stuff. Every single tool nowadays offers integration with Git which … Incentivized Helpful? Ben McClure Head of Development Technologies in Research & Development at Top Floor Technologies (Internet, 11-50 employees) Chose Git Git is my favorite among all of the version control systems out there. It follows the Linux software philosophy of being built by many loosely coupled and small components that do one thing well. It's incredibly open, and its adoption in the open source community seems to be … Incentivized Helpful?	Open Source Jakub Wilk President & Co-Founder in Information Technology at Enovatio (Computer Software, 1-10 employees) Chose Mercurial When we chose Mercurial it was more popular from perspectives than Git and we have too many problems with the Microsoft team foundation solution. We also want to move from a centralized version of source control to a distributed one. We also were working more and more via the … Incentivized Helpful?
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User Ratings
	Git	Mercurial
Likelihood to Recommend	10.0 (36 ratings)	9.0 (1 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	10.0 (1 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Usability	9.0 (1 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Support Rating	8.5 (11 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Implementation Rating	9.0 (1 ratings)	- (0 ratings)