Comments on: Learning Distributed Revision Control Systems

By: Luke Hoersten

Luke Hoersten — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 21:29:50 +0000

No problem. When I was first learning about DRCS the docs were slim and the human explanations were even slimmer so I started collecting my favorite sources as I went along. Hopefully this will help convince your teammates as well that DRCS is here to say!

By: Luke Hoersten

Luke Hoersten — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 17:29:50 +0000

By: ning

ning — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 10:18:33 +0000

Great introduction! It showed me where I should go further to. Thanks a lot.

By: Luke Hoersten

Luke Hoersten — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 19:03:52 +0000

You’re completely right about them being fast moving. They’re almost all different beasts now. I started using Git full time again last week and it definitely still had the same interface issues compared to Mercurial. I haven’t used Bazaar at all for quite some time and haven’t tried Mercurial v1.0 yet (I still use 0.9.5 every day).

If the changes are enough to negate my opinions about each system, I will totally write about it. I still think Mercurial, despite being one of the youngest, has the most potential. Git would have to revamp the entire command line interface to catch up in my opinion.

By: Peter Plys

Peter Plys — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 13:03:15 +0000

Does anybody know of any unbiased comparison of the *current* versions of git, GNU Bazaar and Mercurial?

All I’ve seen is rather old (DVCS are young and changing quickly).
Bazaar is now pretty fast, git is becoming easy to use and crossplatform, Mercurial has reached v1.0…

By: Humani.st → Shortcomings of Mercurial

Humani.st → Shortcomings of Mercurial — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 15:25:58 +0000

[...] is, by far, the best revision control application I’ve ever used, with Git a close second. Fundamentally, Mercurial does revision [...]

By: Luke Hoersten

Luke Hoersten — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 21:26:04 +0000

I’ve hear quite a bit about darcs (most DRCS emacs modes are based on the darcs mode) though I’ve never used it myself. Do you have much experience with it? Any comments about it?

By: Robert Goldman

Robert Goldman — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 21:23:35 +0000

Another DRCS is darcs. Written, I believe, in Haskell.

By: OpenRadix.org → Shortcomings of Mercurial

OpenRadix.org → Shortcomings of Mercurial — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 10:16:25 +0000

[...] is, by far, the best revision control application I’ve ever used, with Git a close second. Fundamentally, Mercurial does revision [...]

By: Logan Buesching

Logan Buesching — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 18:24:55 +0000

I'm not sure when they added it, but they now have a "Batteries Included" installer for Mercurial, which would have probably shut me up from all of my complaining about it's lack of windows support - this should by far be more heavily advertised for windows users.