http://www.macrobug.com/blog/2008/10/31/distributed-version-control-systems/ Macrobug Blog Tue, 20 Jul 2010 21:22:49 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://www.macrobug.com/blog/2008/10/31/distributed-version-control-systems/comment-page-1/#comment-75749 www.macrobug.com» Blog Archive » Git versus Mercurial Tue, 27 Jan 2009 15:42:39 +0000 http://www.macrobug.com/blog/2008/10/31/distributed-version-control-systems/#comment-75749 [...] A few months ago I adopted Mercurial for a project on which I was working. At that time I was faced with a choice between Mercurial or Git, and Mercurial seemed the right choice because it behaved similarly to Subversion, with which nearly everyone is familiar. Git, however, seemed to be developed by-hackers-for-hackers. Although this often yields the best feature set it does, in my view, tend to lead to confusion (and occasionally architectural omissions). [...] [...] A few months ago I adopted Mercurial for a project on which I was working. At that time I was faced with a choice between Mercurial or Git, and Mercurial seemed the right choice because it behaved similarly to Subversion, with which nearly everyone is familiar. Git, however, seemed to be developed by-hackers-for-hackers. Although this often yields the best feature set it does, in my view, tend to lead to confusion (and occasionally architectural omissions). [...]

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