Git vs Gitless vs Mercurial

Pros of Git

• 1.4K

  Distributed version control system
• 1.1K

  Efficient branching and merging
• 959

  Fast
• 845

  Open source
• 726

  Better than svn
• 368

  Great command-line application
• 306

  Simple
• 291

  Free
• 232

  Easy to use
• 222

  Does not require server
• 28

  Distributed
• 23

  Small & Fast
• 18

  Feature based workflow
• 15

  Staging Area
• 13

  Most wide-spread VSC
• 11

  Disposable Experimentation
• 11

  Role-based codelines
• 7

  Frictionless Context Switching
• 6

  Data Assurance
• 5

  Efficient
• 4

  Just awesome
• 3

  Easy branching and merging
• 3

  Github integration
• 2

  Compatible
• 2

  Possible to lose history and commits
• 2

  Flexible
• 1

  Team Integration
• 1

  Easy
• 1

  Light
• 1

  Fast, scalable, distributed revision control system
• 1

  Rebase supported natively; reflog; access to plumbing
• 1

  Flexible, easy, Safe, and fast
• 1

  CLI is great, but the GUI tools are awesome
• 1

  It's what you do
• 0

  Phinx

Pros of Gitless

Pros of Mercurial

• 18

  A lot easier to extend than git
• 17

  Easy-to-grasp system with nice tools
• 13

  Works on windows natively without cygwin nonsense
• 11

  Written in python
• 9

  Free
• 8

  Fast
• 6

  Better than Git
• 6

  Best GUI
• 4

  Better than svn
• 2

  Hg inc
• 2

  Good user experience
• 2

  TortoiseHg - Unified free gui for all platforms
• 2

  Consistent UI
• 2

  Easy-to-use
• 2

  Native support to all platforms
• 1

  Free to use

Cons of Git

• 16

  Hard to learn
• 11

  Inconsistent command line interface
• 9

  Easy to lose uncommitted work
• 8

  Worst documentation ever possibly made
• 5

  Awful merge handling
• 3

  Unexistent preventive security flows
• 3

  Rebase hell
• 2

  Ironically even die-hard supporters screw up badly
• 2

  When --force is disabled, cannot rebase
• 1

  Doesn't scale for big data

Cons of Gitless

Cons of Mercurial

• 0

  Track single upstream only
• 0

  Does not distinguish between local and remote head