On 11/29/2011 05:30 AM, Matt Johnston wrote: > On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 02:09:55PM -0500, Christopher Barry wrote: >> >> forgive my ignorance, but why the move to mercurial as opposed to say >> git? Is there a technical reason, or is it simply a personal preference? > > Personal preference mostly. With Mercurial I've found it > easier to get things done without having to poke around in > manpages etc. I guess coming from Monotone might help there > since it seems closer to Mercurial. > > Matt >
Coming from _anything_, tracking source history is easier in mercurial than git. The user interface of git is epically horrid and constructed entirely out of magic special cases. (Alas, it's what the linux kernel uses, so as with windows and the flash plugin you just sort of have to put up with it.) Rob
