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Git Reflow vs Mercurial: What are the differences?
Git Reflow: Reflow automatically creates pull requests, ensures the code review is approved, and squash merges finished branches to master. Reflow automatically creates pull requests, ensures the code review is approved, and squash merges finished branches to master with a great commit message template; 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.
Git Reflow and Mercurial can be categorized as "Version Control System" tools.
Git Reflow is an open source tool with 1.45K GitHub stars and 60 GitHub forks. Here's a link to Git Reflow's open source repository on GitHub.
Pros of Git Reflow
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 Git Reflow
Cons of Mercurial
- Track single upstream only0
- Does not distinguish between local and remote head0