Comments on: Git vs. Mercurial

By: dsp

dsp — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 23:45:58 +0000

Yes, but they are for long living branches. So it’s from a design perspective more or less the same as CVS or SVN does and _not_ what git does with it’s short living branches.

By: Kay

Kay — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 23:41:15 +0000

Of course now Mercurial supports per-repository branching..

http://hgbook.red-bean.com/hgbookch8.html

By: Fredrik Bränström

Fredrik Bränström — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 11:31:30 +0000

Hg is the element abbreviation for Mercury.

The lack of local branching in hg will probably be what will turn me off the most when I try it. But it seems like a nice option beside Git, I’ll probably stick with Git though. :)

By: Dardo Sordi

Dardo Sordi — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 16:27:03 +0000

Have you tried git-instaweb ?

By: dsp

dsp — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 15:21:33 +0000

Definatly true. It has windows support these days (not native, you still need msys), but acutally good enough to be worth using.

Automatic garbage collection is great! I don’t know when it was introduced, but it’s good to know that it exists.

By: John Goerzen

John Goerzen — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 20:32:52 +0000

A couple of comments:

Git does have native Windows support these days. Also, manual garbage collection is no longer required, as Git will automatically do this when needed.

By: jengelh

jengelh — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 20:27:26 +0000

># The only way to access non tagged commits are long SHA1 keys

You can use abbreviated ones.

># Manual garbage collecting

I would particularly dislike it doing automatic collection every 1000 operations, especially on big repositories like the linux kernel.

By: bilbo

bilbo — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 22:04:54 +0000

Wow! This article is great! I’ve recently started using git. However, it doesn’t have great windows support, so I started looking some more after hearing some good thing about Mercurial and Bazaar. This article has really helped me decide to give Mercurial a try.

By: dsp

dsp — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 21:54:51 +0000

I refered to the “hg serve” command that starts up a webserver. You now can easily browse the hg repos, without having to configure apache/cgi-bin, etc.

By: dsp

dsp — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 21:50:52 +0000

Hmm in fact I initialized the hg repos on my laptop machine with the newer repository and uploaded it to my debian server to share it, but it doesn’t worked out for me. Maybe there is a simple solution.

I have to take a look at mercurial again, at the moment I’m very happy with my (personal) git.