From: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>
To: Noah Silverman <noah@smartmediacorp.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, Dmitry Potapov <dpotapov@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Advice on choosing git
Date: Wed, 12 May 2010 11:15:30 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <AANLkTimIfAZp0ywpwMyllp3QtmO2Js6H1HhkP4l47bGl@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4BEA4B46.6010009@smartmediacorp.com>
Hi,
On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 8:31 AM, Noah Silverman <noah@smartmediacorp.com> wrote:
> I'm looking for both a version control system and backup system.
I recommend git for versioning and bup [1] for backup.
> Bazaar also looks like a possible option, but I'm not sure it handles
> drive usage better. Their website has a lengthy manifesto about how
> they're better than Git, but I don't have enough experience with either
> to make an informed decision.
Scott Chacon maintains this page [2] that compares Git with other
versioning systems. From my personal experience, I find Bazaar to be
quite horrible and slow. Mercurial is user-friendly, but nowhere near
Git in terms of speed, power, and size.
-- Ram
[1] http://github.com/apenwarr/bup
[2] http://whygitisbetterthanx.com/
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-05-12 9:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-05-12 6:31 Advice on choosing git Noah Silverman
2010-05-12 9:04 ` Dmitry Potapov
2010-05-12 9:15 ` Ramkumar Ramachandra [this message]
2010-05-12 9:24 ` Jonathan Nieder
2010-05-13 0:18 ` Joe Brenner
2010-05-13 0:31 ` Avery Pennarun
2010-05-13 11:48 ` Matthieu Moy
2010-05-13 17:31 ` Avery Pennarun
2010-05-19 0:37 ` Anthony W. Youngman
2010-05-19 1:12 ` Avery Pennarun
2010-05-13 11:42 ` Matthieu Moy
2010-05-13 11:51 ` Jeff King
2010-05-13 18:20 ` Martin Langhoff
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