--- title: TortoiseHg Reviews meta_title: 'TortoiseHg Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta_description: Filter 42 reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how TortoiseHg works for a business like yours. aggregate_rating: rating_value: 3.9 review_count: 42 scale: '5' date_modified: '2026-06-15' parent_category: name: Source Code Management url: https://www.g2.com/categories/source-code-management --- # TortoiseHg Reviews **Vendor:** Bitsy **Category:** [Version Control Clients](https://www.g2.com/categories/version-control-clients) **Average Rating:** 3.9/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 42 ## About TortoiseHg TortoiseHg is a Windows shell extension and a series of applications for the Mercurial distributed revision control system that includes a Gnome/Nautilus extension and a CLI wrapper application to be able to used on non-Windows platforms. ## TortoiseHg Reviews ### 1. TortoiseHg - Simple and Efficient **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Alwin Shobanraj M. | SDE 3, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 19, 2021 **What do you like best about TortoiseHg?** 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 **What do you dislike about TortoiseHg?** 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. **Recommendations to others considering TortoiseHg:** When searching for an easy-to-use and quickly configurable tool, then can go for the Tortoise HG. Though many different tools may arrive like Tortoise SVN, Tortoise GIT, etc. Tortoise HG stand separately to the command line users who use commands to execute the version control activities **What problems is TortoiseHg solving and how is that benefiting you?** When there is any problem occurs while merging the branches in the GIT (Version Control System), then the Tortoise HG is used to visualize the branch conflicts and help to resolve the confusion easily. Also every version control activities like pull, push, fetch, commit, etc are easily done through Tortoise HG ### 2. TortoiseHg - Advantages and Disadvantages **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Dama D. | Senior Technical Lead, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 28, 2021 **What do you like best about TortoiseHg?** 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. **What do you dislike about TortoiseHg?** 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. **What problems is TortoiseHg solving and how is that benefiting you?** TortoiseHg needs to be compatible with other operating systems apart from Microsoft Windows to increase its sales. TortoiseHg's feature multi-branch merging needs to be robust and efficient. The help section needs to be appropriate to clear most users' doubts. ### 3. Review of TortoiseHg **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 04, 2022 **What do you like best about TortoiseHg?** 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. **What do you dislike about TortoiseHg?** 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. **What problems is TortoiseHg solving and how is that benefiting you?** The whole project is maintained by this tool easily. It keeps the track of the changes which is helpful if we need information of the work done in emergency cases. ### 4. Tool to resolve problems relate to version control systems **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Raúl G. | Software Development Engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 01, 2021 **What do you like best about TortoiseHg?** The UI provided to check the errors and the simple lateral menu that allows you to understand the available operations **What do you dislike about TortoiseHg?** Sometimes I face some issues related to GitHub Authorization. Maybe because of the version or the changes GitHub performs. **Recommendations to others considering TortoiseHg:** First search on Internet videos about how to use it **What problems is TortoiseHg solving and how is that benefiting you?** My work is related to Version Control Systems. Since we have to manage GitHub to control the versions for an app, sometimes I have many problems because many developers work on the same topics. With TortoiseHg, I can find the issues during the merge process faster and solve them so we can continue working. Also, it is helpful to check the differences between the current and the new code. ### 5. Awsome tool for code management **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Mohan Rajesh K. | Lead Software Developer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 14, 2021 **What do you like best about TortoiseHg?** The check-in and check-out process is too good, the option to track all the merges is also a good option **What do you dislike about TortoiseHg?** Missing some options like stash and saving the credentials doesn't work well sometimes. **Recommendations to others considering TortoiseHg:** It is one of the best tools for source code management available in the market. It works well with JIRA also, Where it allows developers to tag their ticket directly on JIRA. **What problems is TortoiseHg solving and how is that benefiting you?** We used to manage our whole project code using Tortoise Hg, which helped our clients and customers to track all the code changes and who did them. ### 6. Best gui for our mercurial setup **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** kinjal v. | engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 31, 2022 **What do you like best about TortoiseHg?** Repo explorer, synchronisation, commit dialog feature with web ui is world class **What do you dislike about TortoiseHg?** Not compatible with all system, some times after commit hang for a while **What problems is TortoiseHg solving and how is that benefiting you?** Continues development support, git commit code from multiple. Developer by merging ### 7. Forget TortoiseHG and use Git. Everyone else already does! **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ahmed A. | Staff Software Engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 24, 2021 **What do you like best about TortoiseHg?** 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. **What do you dislike about TortoiseHg?** The UI is very outdated, and it was a little buggy at times also. **What problems is TortoiseHg solving and how is that benefiting you?** We used TortoiseHG as a tool to interact with Mercurial source control systems. We still have some old repositories that we have not migrated to git (due to client requirements), and these projects still use TortoiseHG. ### 8. It works great for college projects and learning about versioning. **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Fabricio O. | Mid-level Software Engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 04, 2022 **What do you like best about TortoiseHg?** 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. **What do you dislike about TortoiseHg?** 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. **Recommendations to others considering TortoiseHg:** Desktop client should be improved **What problems is TortoiseHg solving and how is that benefiting you?** Versioning about a GYM system to enhance management about routines, memberships, etc. ### 9. TortoiseHg review **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Vipul A. | Lead Software Engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 24, 2021 **What do you like best about TortoiseHg?** 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. **What do you dislike about TortoiseHg?** 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. **What problems is TortoiseHg solving and how is that benefiting you?** I was trying to manage repositories both local and remove. it is very efficient alternative to git. ### 10. Tortoise Hg for ci/cd **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 16, 2022 **What do you like best about TortoiseHg?** 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 **What do you dislike about TortoiseHg?** Lack of luster UI interface as web interface . **Recommendations to others considering TortoiseHg:** Well a simple version countrol source code management which can be integrated with eclipse as well as intelliJ idea **What problems is TortoiseHg solving and how is that benefiting you?** Basic developers working across globe managing code , branching, merging and all ### 11. TortoiseHg is just as Awesome..!! Provide a well GUI front-end for Mercurial. **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Vijay S. | Skype is Great communication facility..., Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 06, 2021 **What do you like best about TortoiseHg?** It's GUI is used for the front-end for Mercurial. And this is the best thing that TortoiseHg provides. Because it is very easy to understanding. **What do you dislike about TortoiseHg?** I feel it's GUI is looking older as compare to current market. I thing this is the only dislike think but all others are very best. **What problems is TortoiseHg solving and how is that benefiting you?** Sorry, I don't solved any problem with TortoiseHg, that's why I can't say that. ### 12. a convenient version control tool **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Aaron Z. | software engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 02, 2021 **What do you like best about TortoiseHg?** I can filter out the files in a convenient way by using the pattern when I commit **What do you dislike about TortoiseHg?** it seems that it takes up a lot of memory **Recommendations to others considering TortoiseHg:** it's small, fast and easy to use **What problems is TortoiseHg solving and how is that benefiting you?** I use it to control my code versions. I think it's easy to use, relatively small than other tools like git in windows; the filter function is the best ### 13. TortoiseHg - Repository Management Client Software for Mercurial **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Financial Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 21, 2021 **What do you like best about TortoiseHg?** It is a very lightweight Mercurial repository management GUI client. It has support for Mercurial repositories although they are outdated in some regions. Open source, light weight, good community support. Written on python - PyQT so faster tool as compared to other. It has good support for Windows, linux etc. **What do you dislike about TortoiseHg?** It has support for Mercurial repositories although they are outdated in some regions. Tortoise GIT is similar to Tortoise Hg and has the same GUI. The Tortoise hg has support for Mercurial while they have extended it for GIT repositories also. **What problems is TortoiseHg solving and how is that benefiting you?** Mercurial repository GUI client helps to manage the repositories and helps to perform operations - commit, push, rollback et. We could easily track the branches, fork the branch, create a new branch or merge the existing ones. ### 14. TortoiseHg review **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Abhishek J. | .NET Developer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 02, 2021 **What do you like best about TortoiseHg?** TortoiseHg is free.donations are voluntary. It has good support for Windows, Linux, etc. Interfaces such as commit/add have a very flexible file filtering mechanism. **What do you dislike about TortoiseHg?** Does not support branching for a single folder.Thgw.exe takes up more memory **What problems is TortoiseHg solving and how is that benefiting you?** TortoiseHg installation is simple and convenient, 1 exe to get it (only Windows platform is considered here).WindowsServer support for SSH TortoiseGit is as troublesome as SVN ### 15. Its a good tool in windows env **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Retail | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 24, 2021 **What do you like best about TortoiseHg?** - integration with windows - simple UI in the GUI tool - lightweight soft **What do you dislike about TortoiseHg?** - the UI is simple but its too basic and can do with some good features - needs more open source collaboration - less adoption in corporate setup - need more eye friendly code comparison section **What problems is TortoiseHg solving and how is that benefiting you?** - I was developing a project written in python. Tortoise was used in that project to manage it - It is a very simple way to manage files and see issues without even opening the file ### 16. Ok ok control **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** SHUBHAM G. | Senior Manager, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 30, 2021 **What do you like best about TortoiseHg?** It helps to compare two files while merging our code and display the updated results. **What do you dislike about TortoiseHg?** UI interface .Some times not very efficient **What problems is TortoiseHg solving and how is that benefiting you?** Merging code. ### 17. Review of TortoisHG **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ahmet M. | Udhëheqës ekipi zhvillimi, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 08, 2021 **What do you like best about TortoiseHg?** Simple intuitive app to deliver and pull the code from the repository. **What do you dislike about TortoiseHg?** Nothing to add here; everything works fine. **What problems is TortoiseHg solving and how is that benefiting you?** Benefits are that we can work from home or remotely via VPN. ### 18. Powerful and simple **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Pier Giuseppe M. | liquidatore, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 08, 2021 **What do you like best about TortoiseHg?** Simplicity also in the First use test sample **What do you dislike about TortoiseHg?** Some times too complex for our Company needs **Recommendations to others considering TortoiseHg:** Try could be useful as for us **What problems is TortoiseHg solving and how is that benefiting you?** Controllino congruente of integrations with multivendors teams ### 19. best version control tool out there **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Prachurjya B. | Team Lead, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 24, 2021 **What do you like best about TortoiseHg?** this is the best tool out in the market. easy to use and very user friendly **What do you dislike about TortoiseHg?** Sometimes setting up is a bit complicated. **Recommendations to others considering TortoiseHg:** Please go for it. **What problems is TortoiseHg solving and how is that benefiting you?** version repository and record history ### 20. Straight forward and effective version control **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 28, 2021 **What do you like best about TortoiseHg?** Familiar windows interface that I can easily check in my content. **What do you dislike about TortoiseHg?** When there's an error, the messages are somewhat cryptic, and not so easy to troubleshhot **What problems is TortoiseHg solving and how is that benefiting you?** Content version control accessible from all groups in my company make it easy to share content ### 21. Best solution as repository sync **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 15, 2022 **What do you like best about TortoiseHg?** Its intiative and best GUI and impactful data mining and free version too **What do you dislike about TortoiseHg?** It doesn't support branching and little enhancements can make it equivalent to GIT **What problems is TortoiseHg solving and how is that benefiting you?** Helpful in repository synchronisation ### 22. TortoiseHG-DVCS my review **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Accounting | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 10, 2021 **What do you like best about TortoiseHg?** Friendly and simple UI. the quick guide(Documentation) is available to use whenever needed. Easy interface/Context menu directly on file explorer. It helps to work with DVCS easy **What do you dislike about TortoiseHg?** I felt it has little fewer features when compared to Github. Security is my next concern **What problems is TortoiseHg solving and how is that benefiting you?** Comparing my source code with previous checked in code, Issue tracking option is available for every check-ins(Commits) ### 23. Easiest way of version controlling **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 23, 2021 **What do you like best about TortoiseHg?** Easy commands UI for Check-in process Easy to impliment Easy to upload project **What do you dislike about TortoiseHg?** When multiple users check-in same time it creates ambiguity **What problems is TortoiseHg solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are working multiple peoples together on same project. Its hard to manage code when all working together. Tortoise helps us to manage code effectivelt and versions ### 24. graphical extention of SVN **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Automotive | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 24, 2021 **What do you like best about TortoiseHg?** It helps managing repositories in linux. **What do you dislike about TortoiseHg?** Commands needs to be mug up and get to sotred in mussle memory. **Recommendations to others considering TortoiseHg:** Good for maintaining over linux and other Os platform **What problems is TortoiseHg solving and how is that benefiting you?** It helps cross platform different OS. ### 25. Usefulness of TortoiseHg **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Mechanical or Industrial Engineering | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 25, 2021 **What do you like best about TortoiseHg?** It is one of the best shell extensions that I have used in Windows. It is simple to install. **What do you dislike about TortoiseHg?** It requires external Git, which can be inconvenient. **What problems is TortoiseHg solving and how is that benefiting you?** Developing IoT systems. ### 26. Very fast, effecient and elegant tool for version control **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 24, 2021 **What do you like best about TortoiseHg?** Simple user interface and light weight client which make tortoise Hg one of the best tool for version maintaining. Easy switch between branches and maintain all the work in progress data **What do you dislike about TortoiseHg?** Sometime the client hangs and it's difficult to push changes on the branch. Security should be increased more and more options on the UI should be provided. **What problems is TortoiseHg solving and how is that benefiting you?** Application development code version maintaining ### 27. Version Control with TortoiseHg **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 29, 2021 **What do you like best about TortoiseHg?** Easy to use and documentation available easily. **What do you dislike about TortoiseHg?** It is user friendly app so cannot tell about dislikes. **What problems is TortoiseHg solving and how is that benefiting you?** Commiting code and mergeing tracking ### 28. It works **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Primary/Secondary Education | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 19, 2021 **What do you like best about TortoiseHg?** It does what it's supposed to do with minimal ui design **What do you dislike about TortoiseHg?** Wish it had more features and better features for remote development **What problems is TortoiseHg solving and how is that benefiting you?** Version control ### 29. Easy to use UI tool for your Mercurial versioning **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Education Management | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 09, 2020 **What do you like best about TortoiseHg?** Easy switch between branches Multiple shelving system. Can un-shelve individual files or the whole shelf at the same time Good use of the UI to divide the screen into Revision history, commit notes section, working directory files, etc **What do you dislike about TortoiseHg?** While UI is handy, it needs to be updated to be more modern or sophisticated Not easy to get back some of the UI elements if accidentally lost. need to be more user friendly **What problems is TortoiseHg solving and how is that benefiting you?** The team is able to pull and merge code easily. Allows solving merge issues in an easy to use UI Reduces time to figure out these issues via command prompt. ### 30. Say Bye to Terminal Push **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Sathish K. | Development Team Lead, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 26, 2019 **What do you like best about TortoiseHg?** It is conceptually simple and easy to use. The best part is the graphical visualization of the branches and its commits. We can easily pull and merge the code without typing in the console. We can easily switch the branch one to another and it is very useful for collaborative development if you are working the same project with multiple developers. **What do you dislike about TortoiseHg?** If any error in the server like while merge and pull means they are not showing the detailed error log and a bit difficult to understand the error messages. Mainly they do not provide partial checkouts. **Recommendations to others considering TortoiseHg:** If you are working with the same project with multiple developers and then you must use this tool. It makes developers very easy to work with their project files without any conflict. **What problems is TortoiseHg solving and how is that benefiting you?** In initially we don't have any version control system to merge all codes from developers so it always ended up with a big problem and then we switch to this tool. Now we can easily push and pull the code from anywhere. ### 31. Another decent source and revision control tool from Tortoise*** **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Tee M. | Lawyer, Apparel & Fashion, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 28, 2018 **What do you like best about TortoiseHg?** I have used TortoiseSVN as my default SVN client for several years. I am working on a project that is source in Mercurial and have found TortoiseHg to be a great tool for working with Mercurial. I enjoy the command line tool but the best use I have for TortoiseHg is the visualized branching and merging. It really helps prevent errors from branching **What do you dislike about TortoiseHg?** There are a few bugs I am suprised have not been resolved. One such bug is related to how the client side password is stored. Additionally the GUI while strong is not super intuitive. Furthermore, the GUI takes a lot longer to use than the command line tool. Additionally I have a problem with GUI's in general because programmers should learn to use command line tools. **Recommendations to others considering TortoiseHg:** First learn to use command line tools, then use TortoiseHg command line tool for branching only **What problems is TortoiseHg solving and how is that benefiting you?** The biggest issues that TortoiseHg solve is around bugs caused by branching and also by reducing the cost (in time) spent branching and merging. TortoiseHg has also been very helpful in lessening the onboarding process for developers who are not particular strong working on the Linux command line. Additionally it's similiarity to tortoisesvn and tortoisegit helps because people who are not familiar with mercurial source/version control have an easier time picking it up. ### 32. it's very manual **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 20, 2019 **What do you like best about TortoiseHg?** I like the interface and the fact that it is readily available on Linux. I also like the potential uses of this software. **What do you dislike about TortoiseHg?** I don't like that every option is so complicated if you don't read the docs. **Recommendations to others considering TortoiseHg:** read the docs and make the appropriate setup before. **What problems is TortoiseHg solving and how is that benefiting you?** version control ### 33. Everything under version control **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Albert B. | R&D Hardware Engineer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 10, 2018 **What do you like best about TortoiseHg?** It is difficult to use at the beginning, but when you are used to it is very easy to work. It allows to work together with other teammates in the same project, document or file. It also can be easily integrated in Windows. **What do you dislike about TortoiseHg?** The integration with Windows could be better, sometimes the status is not properly shown **What problems is TortoiseHg solving and how is that benefiting you?** Control version of files, security copy, merging files... ### 34. a good application to manage git repositories in the cloud. **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Richard M. | Java Software Developer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 26, 2018 **What do you like best about TortoiseHg?** I like the simplicity of this application, it goes straight to the point to download the repository and work quickly from any source.... **What do you dislike about TortoiseHg?** I do not really like the graphic interface of this platform I think it can improve to increase the experience of using the product. **Recommendations to others considering TortoiseHg:** recommended to the entire technological community. an application very easy to use. **What problems is TortoiseHg solving and how is that benefiting you?** With this application I have managed to work with heavy projects in JSF and it has behaved quite well when saving and recovering data in my GIT repository. ### 35. TortoiseHG Review **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Defense & Space | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 27, 2018 **What do you like best about TortoiseHg?** TortoiseHG is easy to use and stable. We used it while developing an enterprise architecture which included a series of c sharp scripts. Similar to other CM tools, tortoise works well considering its low price point. **What do you dislike about TortoiseHg?** Hmmm, overall I dont have anything that I really disliked. A web based version of the tool might be a nice thing if it doesnt exist already. I'm also curious how well you could option metric reports from tortoise since we never exercised that type of functionality. **What problems is TortoiseHg solving and how is that benefiting you?** We used tortoise to configure manage various software products being developed by multiple team members in various geographical locations. It allowed for easy tracking of our software product versioning and justification for our changes. ### 36. Clunky and Old, but Gets the Job Done **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Tim B. | Director Of Information Technology, Information Technology and Services, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 29, 2018 **What do you like best about TortoiseHg?** Met minimum needs for version control. Allowed developers to used client locally and sync software to server. **What do you dislike about TortoiseHg?** Seemed a bit old and cumbersome. Took a while to learn. **What problems is TortoiseHg solving and how is that benefiting you?** Checking in/checking out software for developement; version control. ### 37. Easy mercurial management **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Riccardo R. | Sviluppatore senior, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 28, 2017 **What do you like best about TortoiseHg?** Easy to use and friendly interface. It is reliable as the command line usage and it works better than some hg handler integrate in some IDE. **What do you dislike about TortoiseHg?** It has a poor integrated conflict tool handler. **What problems is TortoiseHg solving and how is that benefiting you?** I use it every day and it allows me to handle every mercurial functions between branches (merge and graft mostly). We use a lot of repositories and related branches, and this software helps us to manage developments among them. ### 38. Superb visualization for Mercurial **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 01, 2018 **What do you like best about TortoiseHg?** Find changes you looking for in few clicks. **What do you dislike about TortoiseHg?** Becomes unresponsive when refreshing a large repo. **What problems is TortoiseHg solving and how is that benefiting you?** Maintaining a branch collaboratively developed by tens of people. Good tool for teaching a versioning system to beginners. Improves efficiency of development and code review. ### 39. Just does it’s job **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 27, 2018 **What do you like best about TortoiseHg?** I like how easy it is to view your code and it’s easy to branch **What do you dislike about TortoiseHg?** Wish it was more streamlined into our ide **What problems is TortoiseHg solving and how is that benefiting you?** Standard source control ### 40. Ufficial tool for Mercurial **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 20, 2017 **What do you like best about TortoiseHg?** I like the way it use to manage branches and makes changeset graft beetween them. **What do you dislike about TortoiseHg?** I dislike the native merging tool. It shuld use winmerge by default. **What problems is TortoiseHg solving and how is that benefiting you?** It provides to help us working togheter in the same system using different branches. ### 41. Good version control software when compared to subversion **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Christian H. | Product Engineer 2 - New Product Introductions, High-Speed Optical Modems, Telecommunications, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 30, 2016 **What do you like best about TortoiseHg?** Nice interface, integrates with Windows Explorer and looks very similar to SVN which is useful for teams that are really rooted down in SVN **What do you dislike about TortoiseHg?** Slightly more complicated than SVN to set up and less widely used than Git. **Recommendations to others considering TortoiseHg:** Good piece of software if you are using Mercurial for version control. With that said, Git is much more common and is generally more widely supported so if you have the choice between the two, I would consider using Git if possible **What problems is TortoiseHg solving and how is that benefiting you?** Used for versioning but specifically for tracking test data and reports which tend to be updated often. Sharepoint would have likely been a better solution but it was not possible to use it in this instance due to IT restrictions. ### 42. TortoiseHg used for subversion with a small team **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Josh S. | Senior Consultant, Information Technology and Services, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 28, 2017 **What do you like best about TortoiseHg?** Tortoise is easy to simple. Fairly easy to setup and configure locally. As the title mentioned, we used for SVN purposes for web code and training materials. **What do you dislike about TortoiseHg?** It's simple. No frills. When locks occur they are a pain to figure and release. **Recommendations to others considering TortoiseHg:** This shell is not plug and play. There's configureable required on both your server and local machines accessing svn. **What problems is TortoiseHg solving and how is that benefiting you?** This tool provide our team subversioning which was needed. ## TortoiseHg Discussions - [What is TortoiseHg used for?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-tortoisehg-used-for) - 1 comment - [View TortoiseHg pricing details and edition comparison](https://www.g2.com/products/tortoisehg/reviews?section=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-06-27+12%3A27%3A15+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=1803bdcb-0bf8-4da2-9831-6aa8061013bc&secure%5Btoken%5D=dd1af6304ea090ed075d01bd5e03208547923baebd60f1ff80d471de576f6e8d&format=llm_user) ## Top TortoiseHg Alternatives - [SourceTree](https://www.g2.com/products/sourcetree/reviews) - 4.3/5.0 (372 reviews) - [GitKraken Desktop](https://www.g2.com/products/axosoft-gitkraken-desktop/reviews) - 4.5/5.0 (196 reviews) - [Git Tower](https://www.g2.com/products/git-tower/reviews) - 4.7/5.0 (186 reviews)