> > Do you have a comparison of git with mercurial, monotone, bzr? Reading the wikipedia articles on each of them http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Git_(software) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercurial_(software) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monotone_(software) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bazaar_(vcs)
it convinced me of two major advantages of git: - speed, - community support: 3 web interfaces, several GUIs. > Here's a well-written piece from someone else who's switched to git: > > http://keithp.com/blog/Repository_Formats_Matter.html ... which adds a third major advantage: - robustness of the repository structure. > > - automatic daily backup, > > Not relevant. > With git or hg, anyone who pulls gets the entire repository. Hmm, but if the central repository got lost, and was restored through - say - my copy, everyone would see my temporary branches, and see the patches in the order in which I pulled them and merged them with my patches, which is not the original order. No? Bruno
