[seam-dev] Mercurial vs GIT

[Daniel Roth]

Forgot to say. There is a hg plugin for JIRA, but it's not really maintained
...

http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/JIRAEXT/Mercurial+Plugin

On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 11:22 PM, Daniel Roth <daniel at danielroth.se> wrote:

> 1) I have not tried GIT...
> 2) Comparing Mercurial and SVN, for me, is like comparing an nightmare and
> ease of use.
>
> There is a Mercurial plugin for Eclipse, but it's really no good. We
> experienced some bugs at work with it (DivideByZero), submitted a patch
> but... Still nothing has happened... I've tried meld, kdiff3 and the
> tortoise thingy for windows, but still I always end up with command line
> because things don't work. Also there is really no good way of branching.
> Named branches is a MESS so even the hg team thinks it's better to crete to
> different clones and then manually merge them. (See their manual)
>
> One other thing I'd like to say is that having a distr. repo may sound
> really fancy, but it's rarely needed. Although being spread over different
> offices all over the world, that feature is never really needed at my work.
> And the really really really few times it is, you could just as well make an
> ordinary patch, and give it to the other person. However, there have been
> many times when hours has been wasted when trying to resolve issues when two
> people have worked in our root repo at the same time.
>
> Just my 10 öre...
>
> Daniel
>
>
>
> On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 11:00 PM, Stuart Douglas <
> stuart at baileyroberts.com.au> wrote:
>
>> As I understand it GIT support on windows is not good, and also just
>> having a quick google around it looks like the tooling support is not very
>> mature either. Also the commands are different to subversions commands so
>> there is quite a steep learning curve.
>> I like bazaar, it uses the same commands as subversion, works on all
>> platforms and has eclipse and windows support. It also has launchpad, which
>> is the bzr equivalent of github.
>>
>> Stuart
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>> On Behalf Of Francisco Jose Peredo [franciscoperedo at tabasco.gob.mx]
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>> Subject: Re: [seam-dev] Mercurial vs GIT
>>
>> I have not tried GIT, but from what I have read it is pretty complicated
>> to learn to use...
>> OTOH I have tried Mercurial, which is also distributed, and found it
>> confortable... apparently the
>> way it deals with its distribute nature is easier for subversion users
>> to understand...
>> AFAIK Netbeans source code is in Mercurial, also OpenJDK... So it seems
>> to work
>> well with large code bases... and there are plugins for Netbeans,
>> Eclipse and the Tortoise Hg
>> project is advanced and usable...
>> Google Code offers free Mercurial hosting...
>> Why not Mercurial?
>>
>>
>>
>> Pete Muir escribió:
>> > A quick item we discussed at the f2f meeting was whether to switch to
>> > GIT for our SCM, rather than SVN.
>> >
>> > This would give us a IMO a system well suited to our distribued dev
>> > model, it would also make it much easier for others to sandbox PEs and
>> > then contribute them back to us.
>> >
>> > The proposal is to use Github to host.
>> >
>> > The team members at devoxx were in favour, but what do others think?
>> >
>> > Pete
>> >
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