On Jun 13, 2013 10:17 AM, "Grant Edwards" <invalid@invalid.invalid> wrote: > > On 2013-06-13, Ben Finney <ben+pyt...@benfinney.id.au> wrote: > > cutems93 <ms2...@cornell.edu> writes: > > > >> I am looking for an appropriate version control software for python > >> development, and need professionals' help to make a good decision. > > > >> Currently I am considering four software: git, SVN, CVS, and > >> Mercurial. > > > > These days there is no good reason to use CVS nor Subversion for new > > projects. They are not distributed (the D in DVCS), and they have > > specific design flaws that often cause insidious problems with common > > version control workflows. As a salient example, branching and merging > > are so painful with these tools that many users have learned the > > terrible habit of never doing it at all. > > I agree that branch/merge handling in svn is primitive compared to git > (haven't used hg enough to comment). > > The last time we made the choice (4-5 years ago), Windows support for > get, bzr, and hg was definitely lacking compared to svn. The lack of > something like tortoisesvn for hg/git/bzr was a killer. It looks like > the situation has improved since then, but I'd be curious to hear from > people who do their development on Windows. >
There's a TortoiseHg now that works well. http://tortoisehg.bitbucket.org I haven't used it very much, but github has released a git client for Windows. The underlying library is the same one Microsoft uses for the Visual Studio git integration, so I assume it's fairly robust at this point. http://windows.github.com
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