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Mercurial vs DVC: What are the differences?
Mercurial: A free, distributed source control management tool. 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; DVC: Open-source Version Control System for Machine Learning Projects. 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.
Mercurial and DVC can be categorized as "Version Control System" tools.
DVC is an open source tool with 4.43K GitHub stars and 398 GitHub forks. Here's a link to DVC's open source repository on GitHub.
Pros of DVC
- Full reproducibility2
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 DVC
Cons of Mercurial
- Track single upstream only0
- Does not distinguish between local and remote head0