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BitKeeper vs Plastic SCM: What are the differences?
What is BitKeeper? Enterprise-ready version control, now open-source. BitKeeper is a fast, enterprise-ready, distributed SCM that scales up to very large projects and down to tiny ones.
What is Plastic SCM? A distributed version control with strong merging, great GUIs and support for huge files. 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..
BitKeeper and Plastic SCM belong to "Version Control System" category of the tech stack.
Some of the features offered by BitKeeper are:
- 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.
On the other hand, Plastic SCM provides the following key features:
- Distributed version control system
- Branch Explorer
- Semantic Version Control
Pros of BitKeeper
Pros of Plastic SCM
- Wanna do Branch per Task Dev? Plastic rocks it8
- No Size limite4
- File Locking2
- Simple, easy to use interfaces. Resilient and solid2
- Very fast1
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Cons of BitKeeper
Cons of Plastic SCM
- Always uses automatic conflict resolution first1
- Adds files with only changed timestamp to pending1
- Keyboard shortcuts are lacking1
- Can't place windows next to each other to save space1
- No dark theme1
- Doesn't have file staging1
