[Scons-dev] mercurial vs. git

[William Deegan]

Anatoly,
On Sep 29, 2013, at 12:19 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. =/


Switching to git would not require switching to github.
Bitbucket.org has supported git for quite some time.

-Bill