Hi, Sorry for my late contribution to this topic: I am late catching up with my mails since my last holidays.
Let me tell you from my personal experiences some weeks ago with git and hg an linux and Windows. Windows Implementations: git can be tedious to use on Windows: I had big problems working on a project mixing up git repositories on linux pushed and pulled by a windows git via samba. git at some point complained about non existing differences: Somehow line ending issues emerged, or the object store got corrupted. I had no chance to look deeper into details. The stable git command on Windows needs cygwin, which is not a minimal invasive installation. (I wouldn't recommend the msys/mingw installation at this point.) The hg (mercurial) Implementation of Windows is very lean, because no POSIX emulation layer is needed. I (luckily?) had no problems with respect to line endings with hg. Branch Handling: IMHO the git remote repository handling is complex and error prone. We would need a fine manual to instruct developers how to lay out their branches, because their are trillions of chances to mess up a repository. (Something like http://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Using_Git_for_Samba_Development ) Hg is quite easy (some say limited) with respect to this aspects. You can simply push your changes where you have got them, no need to mess with bare repositories. In a nutshell, IMHO hg is easier to use for a random user wanting a quick look at the source code. Git gives the power user the opportunity to implement even the unthinkable while being is a little bit beasty if you do not have a clean checkout. Greetings, Olaf ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Come build with us! The BlackBerry® Developer Conference in SF, CA is the only developer event you need to attend this year. Jumpstart your developing skills, take BlackBerry mobile applications to market and stay ahead of the curve. Join us from November 9-12, 2009. Register now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/devconf _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
