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

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

On 9/22/07, Ken VanDine <kvandine gnome org> wrote:
> I would agree with Sean, mercurial is very powerful yet easy to use.
>
> Just my $0.02


Mercurial is written in Python (a plus or minus depending on your
viewpoint of patching and third party extensions) and it runs on
Windows/Mac/Linux.  Last time I checked GIT does not run on Windows
without some convoluted Cygwin setup.

Sean


>
> --Ken
>
> On 9/22/07, Sean Kelley <svk sweng gmail com> wrote:
> > 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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> > >
> > >
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