+1 vote for Git
I've seen a lot of Git momentum locally.
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From: weld-dev-bounces(a)lists.jboss.org [weld-dev-bounces(a)lists.jboss.org] On Behalf Of
Mark Struberg [struberg(a)yahoo.de]
Sent: Tuesday, November 24, 2009 1:07 PM
To: Jason Lee; Pete Muir
Cc: Francisco Jose Peredo; seam-dev(a)lists.jboss.org; weld-dev(a)lists.jboss.org
Subject: Re: [weld-dev] [seam-dev] Mercurial vs GIT
Hi!
While both hg and Git provide pretty the same functionality, there is a huge difference in
the supported tooling set.
.) maven will (most probably) move to Git. Most of maven folks already use Git
internally.
.) there is a native Java Git client called JGit. There will be a jgit provider for maven
in the not too distant future. Thus we don't need to care about OS issues!
.) hg is written in Python. Windows users will need to install Python. For git you
don't have to install anything. The JGit jar will simply be a dependency of
maven-scm.
.) There are native plugins for Eclipse (written by Shawn Spearce), NetBeans (written by
Jonas Fonesca) and Idea (provided by Intellij).
And the main reason for my personally: Im an old bearded Unix guy :)
Btw, there is also a migration scenario from SVN to Git. It is even possible to let Git
play being a SVN server, so you can access a Git repo with a SVN client.
LieGrue,
strub