[Scons-dev] mercurial vs. git

[Gary Oberbrunner]

On Sun, Sep 29, 2013 at 3:19 PM, anatoly techtonik <techtonik at gmail.com>wrote:


> On Sun, Sep 29, 2013 at 9:07 PM, Gary Oberbrunner <garyo at oberbrunner.com>

> wrote:

> > Now that we've all been living with hg for a while, what are people's

> > opinions on hg vs. git for SCons?  I'll admit I'm much deeper into git

> these

> > days and I think overall it's a better system.  But I'm interested in

> what

> > you all think.  We could switch pretty easily if there was enough

> interest,

> > or we could just stay with hg and get on with life. :-)

>

> My choice is mostly dictated by language. If I used Git, I probably

> used CMake or premake. The only advantage of Git I see is GitHub.

> Otherwise both are on par. Git has logical feature branches and dumb

> repeated add/commit commands. Mercurial screws feature branches

> concept, but MQs are awesome.

>

> So -1, as will require migrating to GitHub and we still haven't done

> anything awesome since last migration. =/



Just to correct that misconception, bitbucket hosts git repos too (since
2011). It's quite popular as a git host now.

-- 
Gary
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