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hg/git vs svn/cvs

Posted Feb 25, 2010 17:45 UTC (Thu) by rfunk (subscriber, #4054)
In reply to: Hg Init: a Mercurial tutorial by lmb
Parent article: Hg Init: a Mercurial tutorial

"project maintainers who still believe svn/cvs/... are a good idea should be
the first against the wall for the pain they inflict on everyone else."

Not entirely -- with git-svn you can use git locally while working with a
subversion repository.

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hg/git vs svn/cvs: Just use git-svn

Posted Feb 25, 2010 17:53 UTC (Thu) by vonbrand (subscriber, #4458) [Link]

Yes, but that is cheating ;-)