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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Mercurial

    Score3 out of 10
    N/AMercurial is a free, distributed source control management tool. It handles projects of any size and boasts an easy and intuitive interface. Mercurial handles projects of any size and kind. Every clone contains the whole project history, so most actions are local, fast and convenient. Mercurial supports a multitude of workflows and can enhance its functionality with extensions.N/A

    Plastic, now part of Unity DevOps

    Score8.2 out of 10
    Enterprise companies (1,001+ employees)
    Plastic was a version control system for facilitating branching, diffing and merging. It was acquired by Unity, and its features are part of Unity DevOps. The application is no longer available for sale.

    $6.95

    per user

    Pricing
    MercurialPlastic, now part of Unity DevOps
    Editions & Modules
    No answers on this topic
    Cloud Edition
    $6.95
    per user
    Team Edition (on prem)
    $9.95
    per user
    Enterprise Edition
    $23.25
    per user
    Enterprise Edition (perpetual)
    $595.00
    per user
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    MercurialPlastic, now part of Unity DevOps
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
    Additional Details* Educational institutions receive a substantial discount on Plastic SCM licensing fees * Corporate/volume pricing is available * For more information, please contact sales at sales@codicesoftware.com
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    User Ratings
    MercurialPlastic, now part of Unity DevOps
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.0
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    User Testimonials
    MercurialPlastic, now part of Unity DevOps
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Open Source
    If you generally think that to develop software you have to choose one repository, then in my opinion you have to choose between Mercurial and Git, there is not other solution. Mercurial also has a good merge tool which i can recommend. This gives you the flexibility to push just the "part of the feature", and is much better suited in the case where the "part of feature" and some other "part of the feature" both contain changes to the same file.
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    Plastic SCM is well suited for the distributed development environment, where branching and merging can easily be handled. Its a good tool for version controlling, especially for a big team which is contributing to a big project simultaneously. Situation where Plastic SCM is not at all well suited are : If the project is smaller one and need to be handled by couple of people. So in that case setting up Plastic SCM and educating people to work on it is not at all efficient
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    Pros
    Open Source
    • Branch
    • Distributed architecture
    • Stable
    • Platform independent
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    • Version Control
    • Organizing Workflow
    • Transparency
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    Cons
    Open Source
    • Integration with visual studio
    • More integrated tools
    • When I install Mercurial I always have to do a hard restart of my computer.
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    • Interface
    • Documentation
    • Learning curve
    • Unity integration
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    Alternatives Considered
    Open Source
    When we chose Mercurial it was more popular from perspectives than Git and we have too many problems with the Microsoft team foundation solution. We also want to move from a centralized version of source control to a distributed one. We also were working more and more via the Internet with our source control so distributed version was only solution.
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    Discontinued Products
    Plastic has best integration with unity - zero issues, native, straightforward. GitHub feels more stable but for smaller and or indie teams plastic s version control feels much more under control - you click, you feel safe. moreover, there is no need for extra tools such as gitkraken, gitlab, Sourcetree, fork, etc. it is really easy to develop games this way.
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    Return on Investment
    Open Source
    • Improve time in merging
    • Branching enables us to keep separate version per customer
    • Good tool for programmers is sometimes a reason to stay
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    • Easy to use
    • Cheap
    • Better than git for us
    • Artists love it
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