cURL vs Git

Overview

Git

Stacks343.8K

Followers184.2K

Votes6.6K

GitHub Stars57.1K

Forks26.9K

cURL

Stacks525

Followers254

Votes1

GitHub Stars39.8K

Forks6.9K

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Detailed Comparison

Git	cURL
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.	Used in command lines or scripts to transfer data. It is also used in cars, television sets, routers, printers, audio equipment, mobile phones, tablets, and is the internet transfer backbone for thousands of software applications affecting billions of humans daily.
Statistics
GitHub Stars 57.1K	GitHub Stars 39.8K
GitHub Forks 26.9K	GitHub Forks 6.9K
Stacks 343.8K	Stacks 525
Followers 184.2K	Followers 254
Votes 6.6K	Votes 1
Pros & Cons
Pros 1430 Distributed version control system 1053 Efficient branching and merging 959 Fast 844 Open source 726 Better than svn Cons 17 Hard to learn 11 Inconsistent command line interface 9 Easy to lose uncommitted work 8 Worst documentation ever possibly made 5 Awful merge handling	Pros 1 Quickly view HTTP headers

What are some alternatives to Git, cURL?

Mercurial

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.

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.

WeTransfer

It is file sharing at its simplest. It works as if your e-mail account can support those large file sizes, you type in your e-mail address and the recipient’s e-mail address, add a message, attach the file, and send.