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Plastic SCM vs DVC: What are the differences?
Plastic SCM: A distributed version control with strong merging, great GUIs and support for huge files. 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.; 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.
Plastic SCM and DVC belong to "Version Control System" category of the tech stack.
Some of the features offered by Plastic SCM are:
- Distributed version control system
- Branch Explorer
- Semantic Version Control
On the other hand, DVC provides the following key features:
- Git-compatible
- Storage agnostic
- Reproducible
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 Plastic SCM
- Wanna do Branch per Task Dev? Plastic rocks it8
- No Size limite4
- File Locking2
- Simple, easy to use interfaces. Resilient and solid2
- Very fast1
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Cons of DVC
Cons of Plastic SCM
- Always uses automatic conflict resolution first1
- Adds files with only changed timestamp to pending1
- Keyboard shortcuts are lacking1
- Can't place windows next to each other to save space1
- No dark theme1
- Doesn't have file staging1
