BitKeeper vs Git vs Mercurial
Overview
Detailed Comparison
Git is a free and open source distributed version control system designed to handle everything from small to very large projects with speed and efficiency. | Mercurial is dedicated to speed and efficiency with a sane user interface. It is written in Python. Mercurial's implementation and data structures are designed to be fast. You can generate diffs between revisions, or jump back in time within seconds. | BitKeeper is a fast, enterprise-ready, distributed SCM that scales up to very large projects and down to tiny ones. |
| - | - | Simple: An easy to use command line interface.;Scalable: Nested Repositories are submodules done right! Version control collections of repositories.;Flexible: Hybrid mode for binary files that uses a cloud of server for binaries instead of bloating the source repositories.;Accurate: Tracking of file operations like creates, deletes, and renames.;Safe: All file accesses validate checksums for integrity. All file writes include redundancy for error correction.;Dependable: Highly accurate auto-merge that uses the whole history to resolve conflicts. Most other systems use variations of diff3.;Discernable: Source annotations instantly available.;Fast: High performance and scales to very large repositories.;Free: Licensed under the Apache Version 2 license |
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GitHub Stars 57.1K | GitHub Stars - | GitHub Stars - |
GitHub Forks 26.9K | GitHub Forks - | GitHub Forks - |
Stacks 303.7K | Stacks 234 | Stacks 3 |
Followers 184.2K | Followers 219 | Followers 18 |
Votes 6.6K | Votes 105 | Votes 0 |
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What are some alternatives to Git, Mercurial, BitKeeper?
SVN (Subversion)
Subversion exists to be universally recognized and adopted as an open-source, centralized version control system characterized by its reliability as a safe haven for valuable data; the simplicity of its model and usage; and its ability to support the needs of a wide variety of users and projects, from individuals to large-scale enterprise operations.
Plastic SCM
Plastic SCM is a distributed version control designed for big projects. It excels on branching and merging, graphical user interfaces, and can also deal with large files and even file-locking (great for game devs). It includes "semantic" features like refactor detection to ease diffing complex refactors.
Pijul
Pijul is a free and open source (AGPL 3) distributed version control system. Its distinctive feature is to be based on a sound theory of patches, which makes it easy to learn and use, and really distributed.
DVC
It is an open-source Version Control System for data science and machine learning projects. It is designed to handle large files, data sets, machine learning models, and metrics as well as code.
Magit
It is an interface to the version control system Git, implemented as an Emacs package. It aspires to be a complete Git porcelain. While we cannot (yet) claim that it wraps and improves upon each and every Git command, it is complete enough to allow even experienced Git users to perform almost all of their daily version control tasks directly from within Emacs. While many fine Git clients exist, only deserve to be called porcelains.
Replicate
It lets you run machine learning models with a few lines of code, without needing to understand how machine learning works.
isomorphic-git
It is a pure JavaScript reimplementation of git that works in both Node.js and browser JavaScript environments. It can read and write to git repositories, fetch from and push to git remotes (such as GitHub), all without any native C++ module dependencies.
Git Reflow
Reflow automatically creates pull requests, ensures the code review is approved, and squash merges finished branches to master with a great commit message template.
Gitless
Gitless is an experiment to see what happens if you put a simple veneer on an app that changes the underlying concepts. Because Gitless is implemented on top of Git (could be considered what Git pros call a "porcelain" of Git), you can always fall back on Git.
Sapling SCM
It is a cross-platform, highly scalable, Git-compatible source control system. It aims to provide both user-friendly and powerful interfaces for users, as well as extreme scalability to deal with repositories containing many millions of files and many millions of commits.
