Git for Windows AlternativesVersion Control Systems and other similar apps like Git for Windows

Git for Windows is described as 'Focuses on offering a lightweight, native set of tools that bring the full feature set of the Git SCM to Windows while providing appropriate user interfaces for experienced Git users and novices alike' and is a popular Version Control system in the development category. There are more than 10 alternatives to Git for Windows for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, Mac, Haiku and BSD apps. The best Git for Windows alternative is MSYS2, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Git for Windows are Mercurial SCM, Apache Subversion, Perforce Helix Core and Fossil.

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  1. MSYS2 icon
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    MSYS2 is an independent rewrite of MSYS, based on modern Cygwin (POSIX compatibility layer) and MinGW-w64 with the aim of better interoperability with native Windows software.

    18 MSYS2 alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
    • MSYS2 is the most popular Windows alternative to Git for Windows.

    • MSYS2 is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to Git for Windows.

    • MSYS2 is Free and Open SourceGit for Windows is also Free and Open Source
  2. Mercurial SCM icon
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    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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Haiku
     
    • Mercurial SCM is the most popular Mac & Linux alternative to Git for Windows.

    • Mercurial SCM is Free and Open SourceGit for Windows is also Free and Open Source
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    Perforce Helix Core tracks and manages changes to your source code, digital assets, and large binary files. It creates a single source of truth and collaboration platform that helps teams move faster, even as they develop complex products with thousands of contributors.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  4. Fossil icon
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    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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
     
    • Fossil is the most popular Self-Hosted alternative to Git for Windows.

    • Fossil is Free and Open SourceGit for Windows is also Free and Open Source
    • Fossil is LightweightGit for Windows is not according to our users
  5. Bazaar icon
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    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.

    27 Bazaar alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Haiku
     
  6.  Like
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    Breezy helps people collaborate on software development, by recording the history of the project, providing an easy means to copy the history around, and making it easy to merge changes between projects.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  7. Gitwin icon
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    Gitwin is a packaging of Git, OpenSSH and many other related tools to make it a complete and ready-to-use solution as a git repository on Windows.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Windows
     
    • Gitwin is the most popular commercial alternative to Git for Windows.

    • Gitwin is Paid and ProprietaryGit for Windows is Free and Open Source
  8. darcs icon
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    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).

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  9. accurev icon
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    AccuRev is a software configuration management tool which addresses complex parallel and distributed development environments with its stream-based architecture, to accelerate your development process and improve asset reuse.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  10. Veracity icon
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    An open source, distributed version control and bug tracking system for Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
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    SpectrumSCM is a powerful, easy-to-use, intuitive and full featured SCM tool, that includes version control, process control/management, release management, branching, issue tracking and much more, all integrated in one tool.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
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