On Mon, Feb 29, 2016 at 04:00:21PM -0500, Terri Yu wrote: > Dealing with git is a huge pain. When I screw something up in git, I have > to take a deep breath, look things up on StackOverflow, and double check > all my commands, so that I don't break something. The only reason I > learned it was because I had to learn it to contribute to open source > projects. And when I try to help newbies make their first open source > contribution, the biggest roadblock is always git. When I used version > control for my solo research project, I used mercurial. Mercurial is not > just for small projects. Python uses mercurial for their open source > project. Facebook recently started using Mercurial instead of Git [1].
Note, Python is moving to github -- http://www.snarky.ca/the-history-behind-the-decision-to-move-python-to-github best, --titus _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.software-carpentry.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss_lists.software-carpentry.org
