On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 7:59 PM, Mike Coleman <tutu...@gmail.com> wrote: > Just for curiosity's sake, could someone outline the five (or so) most > significant pluses of hg relative to git? > > > (My personal feeling is that any of the three is a huge improvement > over subversion. I think git probably should have been written in > Python with some stuff in C where necessary, and (perhaps) the hg guy > really is right when he claims that Linus should have skipped git and > used hg from the start. That notwithstanding, though, it kind of > looks like git has won the mindshare war at this point, and I think > the best hg can hope for from this point forward is a sort of *BSD to > git's Linux. I do hope that it lives on, shutouts being fascist, etc.
Yeah, I also think I'll just stop developing Python now and suggest that you all switch to Java, which has clearly won the mindshare war for languages. :-) > Aside: I once worked with the guy maintaining git, and he might have > the greatest sum of talent plus humility of any programmer I ever > met.) But is his humility enough to cancel out Linus's attitude? -- --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/) _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com