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Add to SafariWhen comparing Kiln vs Chisel, the Slant community recommends Kiln for most people. In the question“What are the best hosted version control services?” Kiln is ranked 4th while Chisel is ranked 13th. The most important reason people chose Kiln is:
Kiln offers you an option between HTTPS and SSH for security.
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Pros
Pro SSH support
Kiln offers you an option between HTTPS and SSH for security.
Pro User permissions features
With Kiln, teams can be created and individual users can be given different kinds of access to the repositories, this allows for a much tighter security.
Pro Free with no limitations
Both public and private repositories cost nothing to host. You can have any number of them as well as any number of collaborators. The platform itself is also free (libre) and open source software.
Pro Fossil support
This means you get a wiki and a bug tracker that you can work with locally offline and both are version-controlled. You are also able to customize, e.g., the look of your project's repository if you want to.
Cons
Con Non-free
Kiln is not free, but it has the option for two users to try it for free first.
Con No support for Git, Mercurial or SVN
Git especially is the most popular version control tool out there, followed closely by Mercurial and SVN, and Chisel supports neither of them.
