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

["Kalle Vahlman" <kalle vahlman gmail com>]

2007/9/23, Ali Sabil <ali sabil gmail com>:
> Hi all,
>
> > >
> > > 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.
> >
> > In what way is Mercurial simpler to use than Git? Looking quickly at
> > the Mercurial docs it seemed quite similar to Git in terms of
> > complexity.
> >
> > I've found most distributed scm's to be similarly complex (not
> > considering early versions Git and Arch, etc). The complexity of
> > distributed scm's are in the areas where CVS/Svn can't even operate.
> >
>
> I think as well that mercurial is very easy to use compared to git,

I don't get this argument, looking at

  http://www.selenic.com/mercurial/wiki/index.cgi/QuickStart

tells me that the basic commands one would use for daily development
are almost exactly the same as in git. Am I missing something?

> but am not sure about the merge capabilities of Mercurial. I think
> that git complexity comes from the extension mechanism used by git :
> none.
>
> Basically git is extended by writing shell scripts and perl scripts
> that create new commands

Isn't this conflicting a bit with what you just said? Furthermore, you
can write your tools with whatever you want; Python, Perl, Ruby etc.
With Mericurial extensions you are limited to Python. So you could say
that the extension mechanism of git allows more options than
Mericurial...

> for example git-svn looks like a completely
> separate tool, where as bzr-svn for example just integrates into bzr,
> and any bzr command works on the svn repo as if it was a bzr repo or a
> bzr branch.

I don't see the big issue with this. git-svn is also only the glue
from svn to git, all other work is done on the git repository as
usual.

> git looks like a patchwork from my point of view, it reminds me
> another very popular and ugly tool commonly used : autotools.

I guess this is a case of having the beauty in the eye of the beholder...
(not that I'd consider autotools to be too beautiful, mind you)

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