Mercurial 1.0 released

Mercurial 1.0 released

Posted Mar 27, 2008 14:33 UTC (Thu) by anselm (subscriber, #2796)
In reply to: Mercurial 1.0 released by jfj
Parent article: Mercurial 1.0 released

Even if it were true that the Linux kernel is the biggest open source project (it isn't), and Linus actually did much Git development these days (he doesn't), it doesn't automatically follow that Git is the best VCS tool for everybody. It may be the case that Git is very good for huge projects, but another system might be better for small or medium-scale ones.

For example, since we're talking about Mercurial here: Mercurial does most of what Git does in a way that is very accessible to casual users, especially converts from CVS or Subversion, and is based on some very nice Python code that is easy to understand and re-use. This should also count for something. Mercurial runs well on Windows, too. And it packs some serious muscle, besides -- anything that can handle the requirements of OpenSolaris and Mozilla can't be that bad in the performance department, either.

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