Linus Torvalds Receives 2014 IEEE Computer Pioneer Award

Re:Linus Torvalds Receives 2014 IEEE Computer Pioneer Award by dredmorbius on Monday May 05, 2014 @10:55AM (#7698871)

I've used both.

Mercurial beat git past the starting gates, but git has the advantage of being used on a very widely used, widely developed, immensely high profile project. While Hg has its own commendable set of projects, git has simply won the mindshare battle.

Could be worse: there's arch and bzr and probably some others.

Hell, even GNU/EFF are looking to ditch their own VCS in favor of git from what I understand.

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Re:Linus Torvalds Receives 2014 IEEE Computer Pioneer Award by jordigh on Monday May 05, 2014 @11:11AM (#7698975)

Yes, that's true git's main advantage is how widespread it is.

GNU Emacs decided to switch from bzr to git, but GNU as a whole doesn't have a recommended VCS yet. In GNU Octave we will keep using hg. I don't think the EFF is too public about which VCS they use.

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Re:Linus Torvalds Receives 2014 IEEE Computer Pioneer Award by dredmorbius on Monday May 05, 2014 @03:27PM (#7700594)

I meant to type "GNU/FSF". I thought I caught myself and corrected the "EFF" bit. I knew I was going to write that. And damnit, I did.

But yes, I meant "FSF", not "EFF".

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