Am Dienstag 03 Juni 2008 05:16:47 schrieb [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > How accessible it is, depends first and foremost on what most people > know. That probably leaves Mercurial and git as the only serious > contenders...
And after that it depends on the fact how easy it is to learn it from the things most people know. > Among those two, git is the one I know myself. My decision for learning > git rather than Mercurial was influenced mostly by Xorg's (or in fact > Keith Packard's) decision, but also other things like the fact that > Savannah offers git hosting but no Mercurial hosting. > > Once I actually started learning git, I quickly became convinced that I > made the right choice. The thing I really like about git is that, unlike > almost all other software available today, it really follows the UNIX > philosophy, both in concept and in implementation. > > git, like UNIX, is based on a couple of very simple yet powerful ideas, > and a set of basic tools doing the work. On top of that, you get a set > of high-level scripts to easily perform all typical operations; but the > internals are not hidden behind a limiting interface -- once you > understand how things work, you can use the low-level tools to do about > anything you can imagine. > > Not knowing Mercurial, I can't really judge. But I have a very hard time > believing that any other system comes even *close* to the power and > flexibility of git... git is not a shiny toy with idiot-proof UI; it's a > powerful tool for serious users. > > -antrik- -- Unpolitisch sein Heißt politisch sein Ohne es zu merken. - Arne Babenhauserheide ( http://draketo.de ) -- Weblog: http://blog.draketo.de -- Infinite Hands: http://infinite-hands.draketo.de - singing a part of the history of free software. -- Ein Würfel System: http://1w6.org - einfach saubere (Rollenspiel-) Regeln -- Mein öffentlicher Schlüssel (PGP/GnuPG): http://draketo.de/inhalt/ich/pubkey.txt
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