TortoiseHg Reviews & Product Details

Tortoise HG is a simple and efficient tool for handling the version control system. The best thing about it is that it has most of the frequently used features in the form of menus and buttons and provide GUI to understand the versioning system Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Sometimes we feel like the GUI is a bit old, and the versioning tree seems confusing when viewing in the old GUI. It has a lot of alternatives that came into the market recently. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

TortoiseHg is the lightest tool to perform version control.

TortoiseHg will also speedily perform version control.

TortoiseHg consists of very less number of operations when compared with SVN.

TortoiseHg can be installed with merealy one Windows executable file consuming memory around 30 MB only. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

TortoiseHg will only work with Windows operating system.

TortoiseHg will not allow us to perform branching for a single folder.

TortoiseHg will not have vast features as provided by Azure DevOps. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The TortoiseHg is the light and efficient tool for version control system. It's UI helps to check the errors. It's menu also gives us a easy way to understand the operations that are available. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

TortoiseHg does not have many features. The latest tools in the market is much advanced when compared to TortoiseHg. It will not allow to perform branching for a single folder. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The UI provided to check the errors and the simple lateral menu that allows you to understand the available operations Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Sometimes I face some issues related to GitHub Authorization. Maybe because of the version or the changes GitHub performs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The check-in and check-out process is too good, the option to track all the merges is also a good option Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Missing some options like stash and saving the credentials doesn't work well sometimes. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Repo explorer, synchronisation, commit dialog feature with web ui is world class Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Not compatible with all system, some times after commit hang for a while Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

When we were still using Mercurial repositories across our organization, TortoiseHG was the best free tool to manage our code repositories. There was nothing specific to like about it; it just worked as expected. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The UI is very outdated, and it was a little buggy at times also. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

During my software engineering process, it helped me a lot in the collaborative work between the members of the same project. The servers were on the university's network. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I did not find free servers for my academic purposes. Therefore it depended on the availability of the university servers and the people who support them. A little bit difficult to my goals. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

TortoiseHg UI provides a lot of features to effectively manage repositories without having to know underlying commands. I have also used workbench for manage local repositories. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

UI is less modern. Other tools are more modern view and provide ease of use. It took me a while to get hang of the tool. However, once onboarded it was smooth throughout. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Definitely the speed, compared to git it is way faster and while checking out ,if you use two different folders for two different checkout , conflicts are managed easily Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Lack of luster UI interface as web interface . Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.