On Thu, Jun 5, 2008 at 11:41 PM, <bbackde at googlemail.com> wrote: > One final word to this: I don't wanted to start a flamewar, I wanted > to point out that > one could concentrate on a system that works well on all platforms. > > This is not true for git. But ok, go on and do it at least for the > Linux users...
Not true. There is a java port of git, which is faster then early git core. The native windows port works, although no quite as fast. Mercurial depends on the python chains. for ad-hoc scripts Git is designed for quick one-liner using shell scripts. Mercurial require python knowledge to do the simplest automation. > Btw: I gave two reasons for my recommendation of mercurial, but David > just ignored them. > For me his reply was not the best, but annoying. > > On Thu, Jun 5, 2008 at 5:00 PM, Ed Tomlinson <edt at aei.ca> wrote: >> On June 5, 2008, David 'Bombe' Roden wrote: >>> On Thursday 05 June 2008 12:17:05 bbackde at googlemail.com wrote: >>> >>> > Why git, why not mercurial (better multi-platform support than git, >>> > same or more features)? >>> >>> Why mercurial, why not git? >>> >>> This kind of question is pointless. And annoying. Especially annoying. >> >> David, >> >> This is the best reply I have seen to this sort of 'supid' message in along >> time. >> >> <grin> >> Ed >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Devl mailing list >> Devl at freenetproject.org >> http://emu.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devl > > > > -- > __________________________________________________ > GnuPG key: (0x48DBFA8A) > Keyserver: pgpkeys.pca.dfn.de > Fingerprint: > 477D F057 1BD4 1AE7 8A54 8679 6690 E2EC 48DB FA8A > __________________________________________________ > _______________________________________________ > Devl mailing list > Devl at freenetproject.org > http://emu.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devl >
