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The GNOME DVCS survey

Posted Jan 6, 2009 19:00 UTC (Tue) by amituttam (guest, #55962)
Parent article: The GNOME DVCS survey

I always seem to wonder why Mercurial is not as popular as the other DVCS. I understand that git is
basically the de facto in most cases but Mercurial I thought would be at least on par in terms of
popularity with bzr.

Also, Mercurial's got an active development community. Written in Python it can be used in Windows
easily.

I use both Git and Mercurial and I was going to recommend Mercurial for use at work because of
Windows compatability. So I am just curious as to why in this survey it doesn't seem to have much of
"weight."

Thanks,
Amit

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The GNOME DVCS survey

Posted Jan 7, 2009 18:03 UTC (Wed) by bronson (subscriber, #4806) [Link]

Git's Windows capability is pretty darned good now.

http://code.google.com/p/msysgit/
http://kylecordes.com/2008/04/30/git-windows-go/

I think it was the last of the big 4 to add this. Hopefully Windows compat is no longer a reason to choose one DVCS over another.

The GNOME DVCS survey

Posted Jan 8, 2009 20:25 UTC (Thu) by lambda (subscriber, #40735) [Link]

And in more recent news, the TortoiseGit project, though only a month and a half old, is rapidly approaching a useable Windows GUI for Git that integrates into the shell, so it should be ready fairly soon even for Windows user who insist on a GUI (where I work, we have several people who do content who need to commit, so for now we're still using Subversion for them, but we'd love to move everything to Git so we're following TortoiseGit and the other similar projects fairly closely).