On 15 March 2014 18:25, rj_qgsous_sword <rj_qgsous_sw...@objectmail.com> wrote: > I saw recently that there has been a good deal of conversation on this > mailing list about Git. Personally, I think that Mercurial (Hg) is much > better than Git, and I wanted to mention a few things regarding this: > > Although (as someone recently mentioned) Mozilla Firefox OS switched from > using Hg to Git, Mozilla still has a quite active (4 repositories changed so > far today) Hg source code repository at <http://hg.mozilla.org>. > > When I was considering whether to use Git or Hg for my own single-person > project, I was overwhelmed by the complexity of Git, with 139 commands in > version 1.5.0.. A quick look at screenshots of TortoiseGit's context menu > versus TortoiseHg's will show this difference as well. While Git may be > faster than Hg for certain operations on Linux, it has a reputation for > being difficult to learn, and its Windows support (as of 2010) was reported > to be much worse than Hg's. (Some of this information is from a book that > comes with TortoiseHg, Mercurial: The Definitive Guide, which might appear > to be biased, but its comparison of different VCSs seems objective to me.) > This book also mentions that Git repositories require frequent "repacks" of > metadata, which can decrease performance, take large amounts of disk space > and server bandwidth, and take many hours to complete for large > repositories. It goes on to say that Git uses shell or Perl scripts to > implement several of its commands, which can ignore certain errors that > should be fatal. > > I have been using Mercurial (through TortoiseHg) for 6 months now and am > very pleased with it. (I used TortoiseSVN before that, and had some > frustrations with it.) Recently I found that a file in my repository had > somehow gotten corrupted, but after reading the page on Mercurial's website > about repository corruption, I was able to successfully recover my > repository. > > Since switching to a different VCS can be quite an ordeal, I wanted to > mention these things. I admit that I am not very knowledgeable about VCSs, > so please correct me if I am wrong about anything. >
git storage format is better than Mercurial's. git UI/GUI are constantly improving. msysgit / git cheetah (Tortoise-like plugin) are very performant. Which i've facilitate in deployments to large and mostly Windows based developers. git has more traction behind it / more people and potential developers know/use git. If you preffer hg client, you can use http://hg-git.github.io/ against git repositories without anybody finding out =) -- Regards, Dimitri. _______________________________________________ sword-devel mailing list: sword-devel@crosswire.org http://www.crosswire.org/mailman/listinfo/sword-devel Instructions to unsubscribe/change your settings at above page
