From: Hin-Tak L. <hin...@ya...> - 2012-07-26 03:13:04
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Argh, keep forgetting which account I used to subscribe... --- On Thu, 26/7/12, Hin-Tak Leung <ht...@us...> wrote: > > On 25/07/12 16:50, Earnie Boyd > > wrote: > > > I've taken the liberty of turning on Git for our > > project. CVS will > > > eventually go away, it isn't offered to any new > > projects, I haven't > > > learned Mercurial, and I use git with other > > projects. Anyone have any > > > huge heartaches about Git? > > > > I've used both, and I much prefer Mercurial. If push > > comes to shove I > > can, and I will adapt to using git when necessary, but > given > > a free > > choice for my own projects, there is no contest -- I > will > > choose hg > > every time. Why, given the apparent prevalence of > > git? Feature for > > feature, the two offer very similar capabilities, but I > see > > some > > advantages with hg; for example:-- > > > > * The command set is more consistently similar to that > of, > > and therefore > > more familiar for users migrating from CVS. > > > > * I have always used either RCS or SCCS keywords in my > > project files; hg > > offers support for the RCS flavour; git supports > > neither. I find them > > useful, and I resent the attitude of the git trolls, > who > > tell me that my > > projects must be broken as a result. > > > > > I will begin to store some source in it by this > time > > tomorrow. > > > > Hardly a democratic move, without waiting for comment, > but > > by all means > > go ahead; should I need the code, I can always clone it > into > > hg anyway, > > just as I already manage my working copies of > mingw-get, > > mingwrt and > > w32api, in parallel with the masters in CVS. > > There is no need for mercurial users to worry - there is a > bi-directional bridge (http://hg-git.github.com/) for mercurial > users to interact with git repositories. > > I came across this when I was looking for the opposite (i.e. > git users to interact with hg repositories), since I found > git-svn (svn bi-directional bridge for git) very useful. > That, unfortunately does not exist. > > Needless to say, I am a git user... found it far better than > cvs and svn. I am just about old enough to know what RCS and > SCCS is and have seen them in a merely "checkout and have a > look" capacity, and not having spent any time to get too > emotionally attached to them :-). (may be a good thing!). > > > |