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> Speaking for myself: the one specific thing I use every now and then in Mercurial is "hg serve" command. It allows me to serve up my changes to others in an ad-hoc way without needing to set up a repo in the usual places (Bitbucket, Github, etc.).

You can do the same in git:

git daemon --verbose --export-all --base-path=.git --reuseaddr --strict-paths .git/

or

git daemon --verbose --export-all --base-path=. --reuseaddr .

AFAIK, this does not work with Git in Windows. I will try it at home where I have Lubuntu and see. (If it works, I'll make an alias for it.) Thanks.

Or you can use git instaweb instead?

Or SSH

> If one needs to set up a local repo hosting service for internal use in a .NET company,

There's also (shameless plug follows) HgLab ( http://hglabhq.com/ ).

I was supposed to try this out after SCM Manager, but our IT admin has not replaced the server I was using after it broke. If I ever get access to one again, I'll try it.

SourceTree seems to get slower and slowerespecially if you have submodules and lots of branches. Not sure why. Any good alternatives out there?

If you're using just Git, have you tried Git Extensions (https://code.google.com/p/gitextensions/)? We don't use any submodules where I work, so I've never tried it with that.