CodePlex.com donates $25,000 to Mercurial project

Posted Sep 10, 2010 16:22 UTC (Fri) by anselm (subscriber, #2796)
In reply to: CodePlex.com donates $25,000 to Mercurial project by spaetz
Parent article: CodePlex.com donates $25,000 to Mercurial project

Especially since the git and Mercurial communities don't seem to be actively fighting about contributors. If anything, the tangle of stuff that is git these days seems to suggest that there is an overabundance of contributors to the project and not enough direction. Mercurial, on the other hand, may not have all the bells and whistles of git but it is arguably a much more straightforward piece of software to deal with for many people.

Anyway, git may be the DVCS of choice for the Linux kernel, but enough free software projects opt for Mercurial for it to not make a big difference to the world whether Microsoft backs Mercurial or git, or none of them or both.