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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.

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Pros of Git Reflow
Pros of Mercurial
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      A lot easier to extend than git
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      Easy-to-grasp system with nice tools
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      Works on windows natively without cygwin nonsense
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      Written in python
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      Free
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      Fast
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      Better than Git
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      Best GUI
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      Better than svn
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      Hg inc
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      Good user experience
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      TortoiseHg - Unified free gui for all platforms
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      Consistent UI
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      Easy-to-use
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      Native support to all platforms
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      Free to use

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    Cons of Git Reflow
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        Track single upstream only
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        Does not distinguish between local and remote head

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      What is Git Reflow?

      Reflow automatically creates pull requests, ensures the code review is approved, and squash merges finished branches to master with a great commit message template.

      What is 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.

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        What are some alternatives to Git Reflow and Mercurial?
        Git Flow
        It provides excellent command line help and output. It is a merge based solution. It doesn't rebase feature branches.
        Git
        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.
        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.
        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.
        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.
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