As a happy git user, I am just glad they are using a DVCS No surprise that the system that performed the best using their most reliable and controlled access systems ( HTTP(S) ) that they chose it.
Too bad I have to learn another version control system.... unless there is a good bridge.... Anyone know if there is a bridge? Steve On Apr 26, 2009, at 10:37 AM, dacresni wrote: > > yeah, I thought it was Python (that influenced their decision) also. > > On Apr 24, 2:10 pm, Ted Pavlic <[email protected]> wrote: >> I thought some people on this list might find this interesting: >> >> Google Code Blog: Mercurial support for Project Hosting on Google >> Code >> >> http://google-code-updates.blogspot.com/2009/04/mercurial-support- >> for... >> >> ====== >> We are happy to announce that Project Hosting on Google Code now >> supports the Mercurial version control system in addition to >> Subversion. >> This is being initially rolled out as a preview release to a few >> invited >> users on a per-project basis, so that we can iron out the kinks >> before >> making this available to the general public. >> ====== >> >> ====== >> While there were several DVCSs that we could support, our decision to >> support Mercurial was based on two key reasons. The primary reason >> was >> to support our large base of existing Subversion users that want to >> use >> a distributed version control system. For these users we felt that >> Mercurial had the lowest barrier to adoption because of its similar >> command set, great documentation (including a great online book), and >> excellent tools such as Tortoise Hg. Second, given that Google Code's >> infrastructure is built for HTTP-based services, we found that >> Mercurial >> had the best protocol and performance characteristics for HTTP >> support. >> For more information, see our analysis. >> ====== >> >> (on a different note, Python recently decided to move to Mercurial) >> >> -- >> Ted Pavlic <[email protected]> >> >> Please visit my ALS association page: >> http://web.alsa.org/goto/tedpavlic >> My family appreciates your support in the fight to defeat ALS. > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message from the "vim_mac" maillist. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
