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Mercurial
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Easy to use
Mercurial is a more intuitive option than many of its competitors. The documentation is well organized and easy for beginners to read & understand.
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Lost the widely adopted race to git
Sharing code and projects in an open source world is a must and trying to working with multiple Source Code Control systems does not help the ecosystem.
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Decentralized
Doesn't require access to a central repository, because each checkout is a full repository by itself.
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Setup paths are hardcoded
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Free and open source
Mercurial is open source and free to use.
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Can't delete named branches
You pretty much have to use tags instead.
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Fast
Mercurial is designed to make performing operations (such as commits, clones etc.) fast.
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Feels limited from a Git user's perspective
E.g. it does not offer the ability to rebase/force-push your own feature branch.
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Good documentation
Mercurial documentation covers everything from revision control system basics to mercurial specific features in a short and clear way.
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Extensible
Users can activate plugins to provide additional features.
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Same features Git provides, but much easier to use and to understand
The command-line interface is more intuitive, requiring much less memorization and exotic options/piping to achieve the same thing you would in git.
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Native Windows support
Native Windows support. No trace of cygwin or other dirty hacks typically found in competitors.
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Fully python based
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Doesn't delete history
Mercurial makes it pretty darn hard to delete history by mistake. In Git, if you mistakenly commit to HEAD and switch to a different branch, your commit is toast. Yes, you can dig through the reflog but most users don't even know of its existence and will wish they didn't once they find out.
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Actively contributed to by Facebook
Mercurial is actively contributed to by the developers at Facebook as they use it for their massive source repository.
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GitLab issues
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Search functionality is not that refined
While you can search for users or projects, you cannot search for a filename. This makes GitLab's search one of the weak points in an otherwise great tool.
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Good web UI
GitLab's UI is clean and intuitive. Each view is designed to not fill the screen with useless information. It displays the activity in a feed-type way in the most prominent part of the view. On top of that, there's a toolbar with buttons which can filter this feed by pushes, merge events or comments. On the left, there's a menu that displays all the links that take you to the different views. For example, a file directory which displays all the files in that repo, a commit view which displays all the commits in cronological order, a network and a graph view that display important information graphically etc... All these details make GitLab's UI extremely intuitive and easy to use, no view is overflown with information and every view displays only the most useful and crucial information needed at that time.
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Free and open source
Gitlab is a free open source project licensed under MIT. Source code for Enterprise Edition can be found here and Community Edition here.
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Comes with integrated CI/CD solution
GitLab CI makes it easy to set up CI and deployment for projects in GitLab. It supports parallel testing, multiple platforms, Docker containers and streaming build logs.
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Regular updates
GitLab is being constantly worked on and has a new release every month on the 22nd. Updating is also very easy through a single upgrade script.
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Issues can have weight
On GitLab EE (free for open-source projects only) you can set the weight of an issue during its creation (from 1 to 9) to get a better idea of how much time, value or complexity a given issue has.
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Linux, BSD
Technology:
Ruby
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Subversion
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Branches are hell. Conflicts are hell
Svn is hard to use on multi-topics workflows. Branches exist but are often not used because of the fear of the merge hell. Also, conflicts are a big deal and happen on the server; it feels like you only have one try and no way to abort/retry your conflict.
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Clear and simple operation
It has linear history, central repository and management. Lacks too complex features, almost every developer is familiar with it, so everyone knows what to expect and how to work with it.
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Underlying model is totally flawed
Need to code in a rural area? Away on a retreat away from a good network connection? On a plane? Tough luck.
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Binary files handled efficiently
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Does not forgive errors
Forgot to commit a file, you need to add a new commit.
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File locking
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Flawed roll-back
It is nearly impossible to revert a big repository to an older version. In GIT, on the other hand, this works very well.
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Incremental revision numbers  
Gives you a better indication on how old a specific revision is without needing any more details.
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Easy to understand externals
E.g. more easy to understand than Git's submodules.
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Free-form versioned metadata
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Bazaar
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Slow developement
Bazaar tends to have a slow update cycle with Canonical. Version 2.6 was released in August 2013 and branch 2.7 was not finished until Feb. 2016.
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Simplicity
It is quick to learn, you don't need to memorize lot of commands to do your job.
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Complicated requirements
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Tracking empty folders
With Bazaar you can track empty folders without the need to put .keep files in them.
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Full support for renaming
Renaming of a file is fully supported, not a hack like removing a file and adding back under another name...
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Redmine
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Free and open-source
Redmine is a free and open source tool.
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Visually appealing and has high usability
Redmine's UI is very simple and easy to learn to use. It does not overwhelm users with many options and information at once.
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Built in Integration for GIT, SVN, & CVS
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Built In Wiki
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Plugins support
If there is additional features set you want you can find or write plugins to extend the ability.
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Platforms:
Windows, Linux, Unix, Mac
Technology:
Ruby on Rails
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Taiga
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Supports both Kanban and Scrum modes
User stories can be organized in both Kanban and Scrum task management systems.
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No Kanban metrics
Taiga is said to support Kanban but it does not generate any of the usual Kanban metrics (cycle time, lead time) or graph (Cumulated Flow Diagram).
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Free and open source 
Taiga is licensed under GPL with source code available on GitHub.
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Can be overwhelming at first 
Taiga presents users with a lot of information and functionality right from the beginning with little guidance. Figuring how stuff works might take a bit.
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Simple to use
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Too much functionality for small projects 
While it's possible to disable any unwanted features (modules), the amount of functionality that's present might be more than a small, short-term project needs.
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Comprehensive Agile software development toolset 
Taiga tries offering a complete Agile software development toolset. It includes complete solutions for issue tracking, videoconferencing, documentation (in the form of a wiki) and either a backlog or a Kanban board for managing user stories.
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Built-in issue tracking  
Taiga has built-in issue tracking tools. The issues can be organized by user-defined type, severity, priority, creation date, assignee, creator, tags as well as filtered by subject. Taiga can also integrate with GitHub, GitLab and BitBucket.
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Built-in wiki 
Each project has a wiki. It has Markdown support as well as a WYSIWYG editor.
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Built-in video conferencing tools 
Integrates with either AppearIn or Talky to provide a video conferencing solution.
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Migration from RedMine
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Export/Import feature
You can extract all your data from one Taiga instance and move it to another one. You can read more here.
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Platforms:
Web, macOS, iOS, Android, Linux
Technology:
Python, CoffeeScript
API:
Yes
Collaborative:
Yes
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git-bug
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Free
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Web UI beta
The Web user interface is still a work in progress.
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Bridges
git-bug has bridges with other bug-trackers, like GitHub, GitLab and Jira. Use it as your personal local remote interface. Sync with git bug bridge pull and git bug bridge push, work from your terminal or integrate it into your editor.
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Online / offline
Can be used online or offline.
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Platforms:
Windows, Linux, Mac, FreeBSD
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MaxiBug
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Free
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PostgreSQL knowledge needed
There should be at least one person in the team that can administer a PostgreSQL server with user roles and rights.
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Drag & Drop
Images can be dragged and dropped on the Issue form.
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Virus warning
Might give a false virus warning on some Windows versions when using the Edge browser, try with Chrome instead. If someone would like to sponsor a paid authenticode certificate this might be solved, please leave a comment!
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Git support
From version 1.1.0 in the Issue form the "Git history" tab can be selected, and by pressing the sync button the Git history for an issue can be retrieved.
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Single exe
All that is needed is a single exe (file size less than 3 MB) and a PostgreSQL server, the database will be created automatically.
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Platforms:
Windows
Technology:
C#
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Mantis BT
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Open source
MantisBT is a free and open source bug tracker.
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Little integration
Supports little integration with code repositories, and CI servers
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Light
Really light and simple. Good for simple management.
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Too simple
Not powerful enough for complex management.
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No documentation can be found in the installation files
The files that are included with the installer or the files that come out of the box after a fresh installation don't include any documentation.
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Trac
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Database support
Supports PostgreSQL, MySQL and SQLite.
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Python
Python can be slow sometimes.
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GIT and SVN support
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Open source
Written in Python.
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Bitnami installer
Bitnami installer available.
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Platforms:
Windows, Linux, Mac
Technology:
Python
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The Bug Genie
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Wiki
Built-in Wiki with MarkDown support.
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Custom issue fields
The Bug Genie supports having any number of custom issue fields for any type of issue.
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Open-source
The Bug Genie is a free and open source tool.
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Windows, Linux, Mac, Web, Self-Hosted
Technology:
PHP
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Bugsnag
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Great documentation
Clear, concise documentation. Plus docs on cross-domain script errors and enabling CORS.
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The tool seems flaky
De-obfuscation doesn't always work on react-native projects.
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Email, chat, sms notifications
Bugsnag can be set up to send email notifications as soon as exceptions occur. It can also integrate with a number of third-party services that can be used for notifications including Campfire, HipChat, Twilio SMS and custom solutions via Webhook.
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Blocked by ad blockers by default
Bugsnag is blocked by the AdBlock EasyPrivacy filter.
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Automatic issues/ticket creation
Bugsnag integrates with a wide variety of 3rd party tools to automatically create issues or tickets. Integrations include GitHub, BitBucket, UserVoice, Trello and many, many others.
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Has a free plan
After a two-week full-featured free trial period the user is limited to 2,000 errors/month, 1 user and 1 project.
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Exceptions are grouped 
Bugsnag groups similar exceptions together displaying the number of occurences so that there's no need to deal with each instance of the error separately.
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Exceptional documentation organization
Their documentation was well organized, easy to search through for the platform of choice and quick work of full product integration.
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Supports Unity 3D
Drop in place integration with Unity 3D, only a simple API Token configuration on game object and everything was up & running with almost zero code written.
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Supports phabricator integrations
Not many products have decided to finally start doing this, phabricator now has a champion.
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Source map support
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Stack traces
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Client libraries are open source 
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Report uncaught errors
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Good web UI 
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Platforms:
Windows, Linux, Mac, Cloud
Technology:
Perl
Supported languages:
50+ (https://www.bugsnag.com/platforms/)
Hosting options:
Cloud / Self-hosted
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BitBucket Issue Tracker
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Free for up to 5 users
You can use BitBucket for free if you have 5 or less users (or try it out for free). Price brackets are for 10, 25, 50, 100, or unlimited users (it costs $1 per user per month, or $200 for unlimited users).
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Integration with other tools is not as good as github
Most of the 3rd party tools ( bug trackers, CI servers, chat servers, etc) always integrate with GitHub first, and either don't integrate with Bitbucket at all or do sub par job in it. For example there are 3 separate projects to allow building and verifying pull request submissions on Jenkins CI server and there is only one viable one for BitBucket and that one is really buggy and lacking many features. The only exception to this rule is Atlassian products like Jira.
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Native application for both Mac and Windows
Atlassian, the company behind BitBucket is also behind SourceTree, a free application for Windows and Mac wich works as a client for both Git and Mercurial which can be connected to BitBucket and other code hosting services.
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Supports both Mercurial and Git
Has full support for both Mercurial and Git VCS.
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ClearCase
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File-centric
ClearCase is file-centric without UCM module
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Dynamic views
MVFS filesystem is a good approach for configuring a custom view to your files
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Slow
ClearCase is very slow
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Perforce
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Multi platform availability
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Closed Source
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Central repository/server
There's a central repository and a clear path/protocol how to reach it.
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Does not work offline
You must be connected to the internet to do anything useful. Although, there is a Git <-> Perforce bridge that sorta solves the problem.
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HelixCore
Helix Core for GIT large files is free for up to 5 users.
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Centralized
Branching becomes a pain due to its non-distributed model.
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Solid workflow for binary files
Perforce has shown itself as very capable when it comes to managing binary files. That's why it's still the go to version control system in game development.
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GUI and Visual Studio integration available
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