Guido van Rossum wrote: > 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? > All the humility in the world pales besides Linus's attitude. But that's probably just because we are all fools.
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