Moving to D

[Lars T. Kyllingstad]

On Fri, 07 Jan 2011 08:53:06 +0100, Don wrote:

> Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>> What are the advantages of Mercurial over git? (git does allow multiple
>> branches.)
>> 
>> Andrei
> 
> Essentially political and practical rather than technical.
> 
> Mercurial doesn't have the blatant hostility to Windows that is evident
> in git. It also doesn't have the blatant hostility to svn (in fact, it
> tries hard to ease the transition).

I don't think Git's SVN hostility is a problem in practice.  AFAIK there 
are tools (git-svn comes to mind) that can transfer the contents of an 
SVN repository, with full commit history and all, to a Git repo.  Also, 
it will only have to be done once, so that shouldn't weigh too heavily on 
the decision.


> Technically, I don't think there's much difference between git and
> Mercurical, compared to how different they are from svn.

Then my vote goes to Git, simply because that's what I'm familiar with.

-Lars