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Gerrit Code Review vs Mercurial: What are the differences?
What is Gerrit Code Review? OpenSource Git Code Review Tool. Gerrit is a self-hosted pre-commit code review tool. It serves as a Git hosting server with option to comment incoming changes. It is highly configurable and extensible with default guarding policies, webhooks, project access control and more.
What is Mercurial? A distributed version control system. 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.
Gerrit Code Review belongs to "Code Review" category of the tech stack, while Mercurial can be primarily classified under "Version Control System".
"Code review" is the top reason why over 6 developers like Gerrit Code Review, while over 15 developers mention "Easy-to-grasp system with nice tools" as the leading cause for choosing Mercurial.
According to the StackShare community, Mercurial has a broader approval, being mentioned in 26 company stacks & 16 developers stacks; compared to Gerrit Code Review, which is listed in 11 company stacks and 6 developer stacks.
Pros of Gerrit Code Review
- Code review14
- Good workflow12
- Cleaner repository story11
- Open source10
- Good integration with Jenkins10
- Unlimited repo support6
- Comparison dashboard3
- Great for team collaboration1
Pros of Mercurial
- A lot easier to extend than git18
- Easy-to-grasp system with nice tools17
- Works on windows natively without cygwin nonsense13
- Written in python11
- Free9
- Fast8
- Better than Git6
- Best GUI6
- Better than svn4
- Hg inc2
- Good user experience2
- TortoiseHg - Unified free gui for all platforms2
- Consistent UI2
- Easy-to-use2
- Native support to all platforms2
- Free to use1
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Cons of Gerrit Code Review
Cons of Mercurial
- Track single upstream only0
- Does not distinguish between local and remote head0
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