Gut feelings
Gut feelings
Posted Nov 26, 2009 16:47 UTC (Thu) by anselm (subscriber, #2796)In reply to: Gut feelings by man_ls
Parent article: The 2009 Linux and free software timeline - Q1
The problem with Git, AFAIK, is that it isn't quite there yet on Windows (at least for a big project such as Python). It is also likely that Git, being much more Unix-centric by design than Mercurial, would run into the same sort of problem concerning line endings that is holding back the Mercurial adoption, so it isn't even clear that Git would have been the better choice to begin with.
That, and the fact that it looks better for the Python project to be using a Python-based DVCS for PR reasons -- Git is probably a very good DVCS, but so is Mercurial, and, all other things being equal, you want to be seen eating your own dog food.