Steve, On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 1:03 PM, Steve Pinkham <steve.pink...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 01/20/2011 09:10 AM, Andres Riancho wrote: >> Steve, >> >> I've been working with mercurial for the nexpose project @ rapid7 and >> I like it; the only issue I see is that its way more complicated to >> understand at first and I'm not sure if we (as the w3af project) want >> to increase the amount of things you need to know in order to >> contribute. Maybe when web hackers also know about git... :) >> >> Regards, > > 100% of the Ruby web hackers know git, but it doesn't seem to be as > popular with Python devs yet. But I don't talk to as many of them > either.. Anyone care to comment?
I don't know much about ruby devs, so I can't help you with the comparison. > Fast and wide adoption of new best practices is the reason I prefer the > Ruby community myself, as the languages don't seem have too many real > advantages over each other. <? flame_war.references[0] = http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1907543 flame_war.start() ?> But python is *much* faster than ruby! > I've used hg before, and it was also pretty good. For better or worse, > git exposes the DAG model better, leading to a bit more of a > transitional learning from svn than hg, but it's not that hard anyway. > There's tons of great tutorials and videos, like: > http://library.edgecase.com/git_immersion/index.html > http://peepcode.com/products/git > > My main point is that if you're not branching for tool limitation > reasons, perhaps it's time to re-evaluate your tools. ;-) Agreed! > Git(or hg) makes branching and merging so easy you'll do it all the > time, and discover when it's useful in your methodology instead of > having the "fear of merging" syndrome that svn inspires. This tends to > lead to both more stability and innovation since it's simple to try out > a new idea in a branch and merge it if it works out well. Agreed! @Javier: you're going to be one of the most affected persons if we change to git, any comments on this thread? > -- > | Steven Pinkham, Security Consultant | > | http://www.mavensecurity.com | > | GPG public key ID CD31CAFB | > > -- Andrés Riancho Director of Web Security at Rapid7 LLC Founder at Bonsai Information Security Project Leader at w3af ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Protect Your Site and Customers from Malware Attacks Learn about various malware tactics and how to avoid them. Understand malware threats, the impact they can have on your business, and how you can protect your company and customers by using code signing. http://p.sf.net/sfu/oracle-sfdevnl _______________________________________________ W3af-develop mailing list W3af-develop@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/w3af-develop
