CodePlex.com donates $25,000 to Mercurial project

Posted Sep 8, 2010 12:10 UTC (Wed) by ceplm (subscriber, #41334)
In reply to: CodePlex.com donates $25,000 to Mercurial project by rvfh
Parent article: CodePlex.com donates $25,000 to Mercurial project

Of course, I don't have any personal experience, but apparently both jgit and http://code.google.com/p/msysgit/ are considered almost useful.

But, if they switch to Mercurial, I know at least about one friend who would be the most happy man in the world (he suffers under TFS).

So, go Microsoft!

CodePlex.com donates $25,000 to Mercurial project

Posted Sep 8, 2010 14:40 UTC (Wed) by Cyberax (✭ supporter ✭, #52523) [Link] (3 responses)

Msysgit is just a ported version of git. We use it here all the time, works like a charm.

CodePlex.com donates $25,000 to Mercurial project

Posted Sep 8, 2010 19:31 UTC (Wed) by error27 (subscriber, #8346) [Link] (1 responses)

One of the advantages of hg is that it can mangle windows and unix line endings so that linux and windows people can work together easily. Does this work for you in git or is it not an issue for your project?

CodePlex.com donates $25,000 to Mercurial project

Posted Sep 8, 2010 19:34 UTC (Wed) by Cyberax (✭ supporter ✭, #52523) [Link]

It works OK in git. Though we did have some problems when it was not turned on at the beginning.

CodePlex.com donates $25,000 to Mercurial project

Posted Sep 9, 2010 13:54 UTC (Thu) by dgm (subscriber, #49227) [Link]

Same here. The only real problem is that git-svn is sloooooooow on Windows. Also gitk and git gui are very nice tools that work exactly the same on Linux and Windows.