Gerrit Code Review vs Mercurial

Overview

Mercurial

Stacks229

Followers219

Votes105

Gerrit Code Review

Stacks116

Followers223

Votes67

Gerrit Code Review vs Mercurial: What are the differences?

What is Gerrit Code Review? OpenSource Git Code Review Tool. Gerrit is a self-hosted pre-commit code review tool. It serves as a Git hosting server with option to comment incoming changes. It is highly configurable and extensible with default guarding policies, webhooks, project access control and more.

What is 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.

Gerrit Code Review belongs to "Code Review" category of the tech stack, while Mercurial can be primarily classified under "Version Control System".

"Code review" is the top reason why over 6 developers like Gerrit Code Review, while over 15 developers mention "Easy-to-grasp system with nice tools" as the leading cause for choosing Mercurial.

According to the StackShare community, Mercurial has a broader approval, being mentioned in 26 company stacks & 16 developers stacks; compared to Gerrit Code Review, which is listed in 11 company stacks and 6 developer stacks.

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Mercurial	Gerrit Code Review
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.	Gerrit is a self-hosted pre-commit code review tool. It serves as a Git hosting server with option to comment incoming changes. It is highly configurable and extensible with default guarding policies, webhooks, project access control and more.
-	git repository hosting; pre-commit code review; commenting on diffs; updating a single commit with multiple patch sets; project-based access control; protecting repositories
Statistics
Stacks 229	Stacks 116
Followers 219	Followers 223
Votes 105	Votes 67
Pros & Cons
Pros 18 A lot easier to extend than git 17 Easy-to-grasp system with nice tools 13 Works on windows natively without cygwin nonsense 11 Written in python 9 Free Cons 0 Does not distinguish between local and remote head 0 Track single upstream only	Pros 14 Code review 12 Good workflow 11 Cleaner repository story 10 Open source 10 Good integration with Jenkins
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What are some alternatives to Mercurial, Gerrit Code Review?

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.

Code Climate

After each Git push, Code Climate analyzes your code for complexity, duplication, and common smells to determine changes in quality and surface technical debt hotspots.

Codacy

Codacy automates code reviews and monitors code quality on every commit and pull request on more than 40 programming languages reporting back the impact of every commit or PR, issues concerning code style, best practices and security.

Phabricator

Phabricator is a collection of open source web applications that help software companies build better software.

PullReview

PullReview helps Ruby and Rails developers to develop new features cleanly, on-time, and with confidence by automatically reviewing their code.

SonarQube

SonarQube provides an overview of the overall health of your source code and even more importantly, it highlights issues found on new code. With a Quality Gate set on your project, you will simply fix the Leak and start mechanically improving.

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.

RuboCop

RuboCop is a Ruby static code analyzer. Out of the box it will enforce many of the guidelines outlined in the community Ruby Style Guide.

CodeFactor.io

CodeFactor.io automatically and continuously tracks code quality with every GitHub or BitBucket commit and pull request, helping software developers save time in code reviews and efficiently tackle technical debt.