We use Mercurial and are very happy with it.
On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 12:36 PM, Eric Lee <[email protected]> wrote: > > Perforce (apparently used a lot in the gaming industry) > > Perforce is used a lot in the gaming industry because it does a good job of > coping with ridiculous numbers of large binary files (i.e. all of the art > assets required by a AAA game, sometimes 100+ gigabytes of text and binary > files just for the head and a whole lot of churn in the history). I don't > know how Git would deal with that kind of environment but as an uneducated > guess I suspect that the idea of having the entire repo history on your > local drive isn't very compatible with that kind of scale. I'm sure > someone > will correct me if I'm wrong. > > At one point Microsoft apparently paid a lot of money to get a private fork > of the Perforce source code and turned it into an internal-only tool called > Source Depot. It was (and still is) used by our large product divisions > (Windows, Office, others) because, again, it's well-suited for > extremely-large-scale projects. TFS was built from a completely separate > code base but it uses largely the same conceptual model that Perforce and > Source Depot use. > > Eric > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto: > [email protected]] > On Behalf Of Al Gonzalez > Sent: Saturday, December 11, 2010 2:54 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: No more TFS - Git or Hg? > > I find that distributed version control is being used by many for open > source projects (usually required by the project) and for personal projects > (usually less friction for the developer). > > However, I still see most larger companies using centralized version > control > such as ClearCase, CVS, MKS Integrity, Perforce (apparently used a lot in > the gaming industry), Subversion, Microsoft TFS, Vault and VSS. > Heck I still occasionally run into PVCS. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Jamie Houston > Sent: 12/11/2010 3:26 PM > > Just curious... I know the subject is git or hg, but svn no longer > > used in the community? I'm just curious if anyone uses it anymore... > > or if everyone is (appropriately) just going off of the poster's > > subject. > > > > On Dec 10, 2:46 pm, Al Gonzalez<[email protected]> wrote: > >> Don't forget "Go programming language", Python and NetBeans for Hg > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> -----Original Message----- > >> From: Lee Fisher > >> Sent: 12/10/2010 3:20 PM > >> > >>>> Do you have actual statistics on the "far wider use" statement, or > >>>> is that just the observations of your circle? Git is certainly > >>>> used, but I don't think it's fair to say its "far wider" than > >>>> Mercurial is. > >>> I think it's fair. :-) > >>> I'm defining "circle" as "open source developer community". In the > >>> larger sense, not just defined to CodePlex. :-) > >>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Git_%28software%29#Projects_using_Git > >>> some of the big ones: > >>> Debian > >>> Linux Kernel > >>> Android > >>> Eclipse > >>> Chromium > >>> Perl > >>> GNOME > >>> Mono > >>> Samba > >>> Ruby oon Rails > >>> Qt > >>> PostgreSQL > >>> Fedora > >>> OpenSUSE > >>> OLPC > >>> MeeGo > >>> Freenet > >>> VLC > >>> Wine > >>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercurial_%28software%29#Projects_using_. > .. > >>> what're the big ones in this list? > >>> Vim > >>> Mozilla > >>> OpenOffice (doesn't count, what does LibreOffice use?) SymbianOS > >>> (doesn't count, what counts is what MeeGo uses) OpenJDK > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Seattle area Alt.Net" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<altnetseattle%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/altnetseattle?hl=en. > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Seattle area Alt.Net" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<altnetseattle%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/altnetseattle?hl=en. > > -- Scott Porad [email protected] 206-890-7079 http://scottporad.com/ http://twitter.com/scottporad -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Seattle area Alt.Net" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/altnetseattle?hl=en.
