3 reasons to switch to git

Re:3 reasons to switch to git by pmjordan on Wednesday October 22, 2008 @02:20PM (#340340)

I'm not an expert in git (still learning) and I've hardly used Mercurial at all, so right now there's no particular reason. There are probably better people to ask that question. :) I'll try hg in a project sooner or later, but learning to get to grips with 2 version control systems at once while trying to do something productive seemed a bit much. There wasn't really anything on the feature lists that tipped the scales; the Linus Torvalds association and the resulting curiosity probably did.

I can't believe I fell for a celebrity endorsement. ;)

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Re:3 reasons to switch to git by thomasmallen on Thursday October 23, 2008 @09:40AM (#341142)

I prefer Mercurial for mostly cosmetic reasons (I believe that Git and Mercurial are very close, feature-wise). I prefer having one command "hg" ("hd add", "hg serve", etc.) to the dozens of commands for git. I think it has more to do with the way that I think than anything else: Mercurial commands are easier to remember for me.

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Re:3 reasons to switch to git by pmjordan on Thursday October 23, 2008 @01:50PM (#341437)

Um, "git add", "git push", etc. work fine. I think the hyphenated versions are deprecated anyway.

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