Top 15 Mercurial Alternative and Similar Softwares | Apr 2024

Mercurial is a free, distributed source control management tool. It efficiently handles projects of any size and offers an easy and intuitive command line interface. Mercurial efficiently handles projects of any size and kind.

1. darcs

darcs Darcs is an advanced revision control system, for source code or other files. It is fully distributed, and supports lazy fetching of the remote repository (fetching only what is needed at the time, rather than all history). It works best with text files, but it can also store binary files.......

2. Gitwin

Gitwin Gitwin is a packaging of Git, OpenSSH and many other related tools to make it a complete and ready-to-use solution as a git repository on Windows.......

3. Gitolite

Gitolite Gitolite allows you to setup git hosting on a central server, with fine-grained access control and many more powerful features.......

4. BitKeeper

BitKeeper BitKeeper is the original distributed source management system. Now available as Open Source under the Apache 2.0 License.BitKeeper is a fast, enterprise-ready, distributed SCM that scales up to very large projects and down to tiny ones.Download Now!BitKeeper 7.2.1 CE(Binaries and Source)FeaturesSimple: An easy to use command line interface.Scalable: Nested Repositories......

5. monotone

monotone monotone is a free distributed version control system. It provides a simple, single-file transactional version store, with fully disconnected operation and an efficient peer-to-peer synchronization protocol. It understands history-sensitive merging, lightweight branches, integrated code review and 3rd party testing. It uses cryptographic version naming and client-side RSA certificates. It has......

6. SourceAnywhere

SourceAnywhere SourceAnywhere is a source control solution designed as Visual SourceSafe (VSS) replacement. It is VSS-style source control solution with good support for Visual Studio, Eclipse, Dreamweaver and other IDEs. Using Microsoft SQL Server as the backend, it is a simple yet robust version control tool that satisfies the needs of......

7. Vault

Vault Vault is a commercial, proprietary revision control system by SourceGear LLC which markets its product as a replacement for Microsoft's Visual Source Safe. The Vault revision control system uses Microsoft SQL Server as a back end database and provides atomic commits to the revision control system. The tool is built......

8. Perforce

Perforce The Perforce Software Configuration Management System features comprehensive SCM capabilities built around a scalable client/server architecture. Users can access the Perforce Server through a range of Perforce client software. Perforce can be deployed quickly and easily, and requires minimal administration even for large or distributed sites. The Perforce Visual Client,......

9. Plastic SCM

Plastic SCM Plastic SCM is a commercial SCM system developed by Codice Software. Plastic tries to focus on big repositories, parallel development, branching and merging and security.......

10. TortoiseCVS

TortoiseCVS TortoiseCVS lets you work with files under CVS version control directly from Windows Explorer. Its freely available under the GPL.With TortoiseCVS you can directly check out modules, update, commit and see differences by right clicking on files and folders within Explorer. You can see the state of a file with......

11. Kallithea

Kallithea Kallithea, a free software source code management system supporting two leading version control systems, Mercurial and Git.......

12. accurev

accurev AccuRev is a software configuration management tool which addresses complex parallel and distributed development environments with its stream-based architecture, to accelerate your development process and improve asset reuse.Streams provide the basic ability for isolation and parallel development like branches, but eliminate the headaches associated with today's branching and merging. Streams......

13. GitHub

GitHub GitHub is a web-based hosting service for projects that use the Git revision control system. It is written in Ruby on Rails by Logical Awesome developers Chris Wanstrath, PJ Hyett, and Tom Preston-Werner. GitHub offers both commercial plans and free accounts for open source projects.The site provides social networking functionality......

14. SnapshotCM

SnapshotCM SnapshotCM is an intuitive version-control tool with project-level branching and merging that's also easy to install and maintain. Its powerful capabilities let you easily manage changes from multiple developers across multiple releases with confidence.Featuring visual interaction and backed with knowledgeable support, SnapshotCM ensures that you'll deliver the right version -......

15. Git for Windows

Git for Windows Git for Windows focuses on offering a lightweight, native set of tools that bring the full feature set of the Git SCM to Windows while providing appropriate user interfaces for experienced Git users and novices alike.......