On Sat, Dec 5, 2009 at 4:43 PM, Keeto Obcena <[email protected]> wrote: > Another speed boost in terms of workflow would be commits--since > commits are done locally before pushing them to your main repo. You'll > find yourself committing stuff more often (and that's a great thing) > and them pushing all of your commits at once, shaving off a lot of > time in the transfer process. Best of all, branching and merging are > easier in Git. Torvalds designed Git to make these things waaaay > easier than SVN (Linus hates CVS and SVN with a passion shamed only by > his loathing of C++). > > Finally, if you're choosing between Git and Mercurial, then you're not > gonna commit big mistakes. Both are great systems and both have big, > helpful communities to back them up. Git has Github and Mercurial has, > err, BitBucket. Git is written in C and Mercurial is in Python. > They're both fast, but Git excels in branching and merging (and it has > its own transfer protocol that speeds things up).
Huh ? Mercurial branching is pretty good ... pretty much the same as git 'cept for one or two differences. If git "excels" at it, then so does mercurial :P Also, Git's UI sucks ... Regards Rajeev J Sebastian
