I ve been using git for some time now on Windows with msysGit and I like the idea of distributed source control Just recently I ve been looking at Mercurial hg and it looks interesting However I can t wrap my head around the differences between hg and git Has anyone made a side-by-side comparison between git and hg I m interested to know what differs hg and git without having to jump into a fanboy discussion

I m currently in the process of migrating from SVN to a DVCS while blogging about my findings my first real blogging effort and I ve done a bit of research googling As far as I can see you can do most of the things with both packages It seems like git has a few more or better implemented advanced features I do feel that the integration with windows is a bit better for mercurial with TortoiseHg I know there s Git Cheetah as well I tried both but the mercurial solution just feels more robust Seeing how they re both open-source right I don t think either will be lacking important features If something is important people will ask for it people will code it I think that for common practices Git and Mercurial are more than sufficient They both have big projects that use them Git - linux kernel Mercurial - Mozilla foundation projects both among others of course so I don t think either are really lacking something That being said I am interested in what other people say about this as it would make a great source for my blogging efforts -

There is a dynamic comparison chart over at the versioncontrolblog where you can compare several different version control systems Here is a comparison table between git hg and bzr

The big difference is on Windows Mercurial is supported natively Git isn t You can get very similar hosting to github com with bitbucket org actually even better as you get a free private repository I was using msysGit for a while but moved to Mercurial and been very happy with it

There are quite significant differences when it comes to working with branches especially short-term ones It is explained in this article BranchingExplained which compares Mercurial with Git

I realize this isn t a part of the answer but on that note I also think the availability of stable plugins for platforms like NetBeans and Eclipse play a part in which tool is a better fit for the task or rather which tool is the best fit for you That is unless you really want to do it the CLI-way Both Eclipse and everything based on it and NetBeans sometimes have issues with remote file systems such as SSH and external updates of files which is yet another reason why you want whatever you choose to work seamlessly I m trying to answer this question for myself right now too and I ve boiled down the candidates to Git or Mercurial thank you all for providing useful inputs on this topic without going religious

Also google s comparison though it s a bit old done in 2008 http code google com p support wiki DVCSAnalysis

This link may help you to understand the difference http www techtatva com 2010 09 git-mercurial-and-bazaar-a-comparison

These articles may help Git vs Mercurial Please Relax Git is MacGyver and Mercurial is James Bond The Differences Between Mercurial and Git Edit Comparing Git and Mercurial to celebrities seems to be a trend Here s one more Git is Wesley Snipes Mercurial is Denzel Washington

Yet another interesting comparison of mercurial and git Mercurial vs Git Main focus is on internals and their influence on branching process

[git] What is the Difference Between Mercurial and Git?

If you are a Windows developer looking for basic disconnected revision control, go with Hg. I found Git to be incomprehensible while Hg was simple and well integrated with the Windows shell. I downloaded Hg and followed this tutorial (hginit.com) - ten minutes later I had a local repo and was back to work on my project.

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