Git Alternatives

Mercurial SCM

Mercurial is a free, distributed source control management tool. It efficiently handles projects of any size and offers an easy and intuitive command line interface. Mercurial efficiently handles projects of any size and kind.

Features:

• Distributed
• Version and Source control

Apache Subversion

Apache SVN is a centralized version control system similar to CVS , but based on the concept of change-sets instead.

Bazaar

Bazaar is a tool for helping people collaborate. It tracks the changes that you and other people make to a group of files - such as software source code - to give you snapshots of each stage of their evolution. Using that information, Bazaar can effortlessly merge your work with other people's.

Features:

• Distributed
• Version and Source control

Fossil

Simple, high-reliability, distributed software configuration management. Fossil is a distributed version control system, bug tracking system and wiki software server for use in software development.

Features:

• Included wiki
• Version and Source control

Perforce

The Perforce Software Configuration Management System features comprehensive SCM capabilities built around a scalable client/server architecture. Users can access the Perforce Server through a range of Perforce client software. Perforce can be deployed quickly and easily, and requires minimal administration even for large or distributed sites. The Perforce Visual Client, P4V, provides a graphical interface on Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, Solaris and FreeBSD.

darcs

Darcs is an advanced revision control system, for source code or other files. It is fully distributed, and supports lazy fetching of the remote repository (fetching only what is needed at the time, rather than all history). It works best with text files, but it can also store binary files. Darcs is a free, open source source code management system. Distributed Every user has access to the full command set, removing boundaries between server and client or committer and non-committers.

Features:

• Distributed
• Version and Source control

Veracity

An open source, distributed version control and bug tracking system for Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux. Taking a different approach to the DVCS world with bug tracking, build status tracking, and wiki included together with the versioned code.

CVS (Concurrent Versions System)

CVS is a centralized version control system, an important component of Source Configuration Management (SCM). Using it, you can record the history of changes to individual text-based files. CVS is a production quality system in wide use around the world, including many free software projects.

BitKeeper

BitKeeper is the original distributed source management system. Now available as Open Source under the Apache 2.0 License. BitKeeper is a fast, enterprise-ready, distributed SCM that scales up to very large projects and down to tiny ones. Download Now! BitKeeper 7.2.1 CE (Binaries and Source) Features Simple: An easy to use command line interface. Scalable: Nested Repositories are submodules done right! Version control collections of repositories.

Features:

• Distributed
• Scalable