On Mon, Feb 29, 2016 at 8:06 PM, Davide Del Vento <[email protected]> wrote: >> if you’re like me, you will screw up at some point, leading to some problem, >> potentially catastrophic, that you will spend hours trying to figure out. >> I’m clearly not alone... “Abort: remote heads forked” anyone? :) At that >> point, we all just call over the one person in lab who knows how to deal >> with all this crap and hope for the best. And look, I’m relatively computer >> savvy, so I can only imagine how intimidating all this is for people who are >> less computer savvy. >> >> >> I heard fewer complaints of this kind, and believe that I saw higher >> adoption rates, when we were teaching Subversion. I'm not going to >> recommend that we switch back, but I do miss it whenever I have to help >> someone deal with a detached head... >> > > I fully agree with that. I can't understand why git has become so > popular, compared to mercurial which in my opinion is as easy as > subversion. To people thinking "github!" the answer is "bitbucket!" > Same features as github, plus being free for non-public repos (which > are paid on github). It's VHS vs Betamax once again, however in that > case you can google a stupid reason why the former became more popular > than the latter. For git-vs-hg I'm at a loss.
As a software developer with experience with both Hg and git, I long preferred Hg too. But after more experience with git I have concluded that it is the better VCS of to two--it's more powerful and I think easier to do certain things in; although that's in part because I've gotten used to doing things a certain way with git that was never really possible with Hg or SVN. It also depends on what one means by "better". I would much rather be teaching Hg to students who are new to version control than git, any day. I'm torn sometimes about which way to go. For novices Hg is definitely "better". As for GitHub vs Bitbucket I agree. Bitbucket also has a vastly better issue tracker since it's basically Jira-lite. The one thing GitHub has over Bitbucket that I like is source code search--why Bitbucket lacks in that area remains puzzling to me because it's so useful. That said I think GitHub became more popular solely for having a cuter mascot, and I stand by that hypothesis :) _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.software-carpentry.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss_lists.software-carpentry.org
