Re:CodePlex now supports Git
by manuletroll on Thursday March 22, 2012 @06:40PM
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I see your point, and I'd much rather see git become a standard rather than a Visual Source Safe clone.
At work I chose (yeah, there was no VCS in use before that) mercurial mainly because we're a small .NET shop, and a nice GUI like TortoiseHg is a big selling point when you're trying to encourage people to use such a tool. There are actually lots of developers who just <i>hate</i> using a CLI. And I don't know how things have evolved, but git was not known to be very windows-friendly two years ago, even apart from the GUI thing.
Re:CodePlex now supports Git
by seanmcdirmid on Thursday March 22, 2012 @07:16PM
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How is TortioseGIT deficient compared to TortoiseHg? I would think at this point, they are sort of equivalent, but I don't have experience with Mercurial.
Re:CodePlex now supports Git
by manuletroll on Thursday March 22, 2012 @07:36PM
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Well last I checked (which is now quite a while back) it seemed far less polished and stable. However I'd probably have to try it again, according to what I can see on the project's page it seems to have improved a lot.
From my recent experience (past month or so), TortoiseHG is definitely more polished than TortoiseGit. The thing I miss the most is the "Workbench", a single window that contains everything you'd need to do (commit, view history, sync, etc).
So do I. I just think that it will be nice should there come a day where knowing git will allow you to deal with the majority of the positions out there. I do not believe git is a 100% fit for all organizations. I do, however, believe git is flexible enough to be a fit for, say, 80-90% of them.
I think git will become a de facto standard. Like all such things, though, there will be alternatives available and in active use.