Re: Mercurial - Distributed SCM in Gnome (Was: Git vs SVN (was: Can we improve things?))

["Sean Kelley" <svk sweng gmail com>]

On 9/16/07, Mikael Hallendal <micke imendio com> wrote:
> 16 sep 2007 kl. 04.40 skrev Curtis Hovey:
>
> > On Sat, 2007-09-15 at 21:44 -0400, Behdad Esfahbod wrote:
> >> On Sun, 2007-09-16 at 01:10 +0200, Ali Sabil wrote:
> >>   - Keith Packard did a fairly extensive research of which DSCM
> >> system
> >> to use for xorg and other fd.o projects, from a storage robustness /
> >> performance point of view, and he wrote this excellent piece:
> >>
> >>   http://keithp.com/blog/Repository_Formats_Matter.html
> >
> > This document is a year old; projects that are under heavy development
> > like Bazaar are misrepresented. For instance bzr has changed it's
> > repository format, and is much faster that it was a year ago.
>
> In fairness, so is Git. It's perceived complexity is to a large part
> based on people trying it out a long time ago while it is as well
> being developed and higher level abstractions are added.


In my opinion Mercurial has much of the benefits of GIT but with the
ease of use of SVN.  We dropped GIT and SVN at my company in favor of
Mercurial.

Sean

>
> Cheers,
>    Mikael Hallendal
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