From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Maxim Vuets" Subject: Re: [VOTE] git versus mercurial (for DragonflyBSD) Date: Sun, 26 Oct 2008 16:30:27 +0200 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: mercurial@selenic.com, git@vger.kernel.org To: "Jakub Narebski" X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sun Oct 26 15:31:47 2008 connect(): Connection refused Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Ku6ef-0005sz-Rp for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Sun, 26 Oct 2008 15:31:46 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753044AbYJZOac (ORCPT ); Sun, 26 Oct 2008 10:30:32 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754179AbYJZOac (ORCPT ); Sun, 26 Oct 2008 10:30:32 -0400 Received: from ey-out-2122.google.com ([74.125.78.24]:8671 "EHLO ey-out-2122.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753006AbYJZOab (ORCPT ); Sun, 26 Oct 2008 10:30:31 -0400 Received: by ey-out-2122.google.com with SMTP id 6so685318eyi.37 for ; Sun, 26 Oct 2008 07:30:29 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to :subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; bh=c1zZlCLJt8HbzBq2wDIAFunZoGJE15aN97Xv37EqvCU=; b=OuxjHCITutw5A69S/wrHo0iP7Yzs8YmKS9qlyfLPabrYx2/WpuCMm6u3gRbKIwek3P AarN0hYVKMVqnJ1ObcD0ssqO21IiWsSXhc4yOojQBfMe2IHiABsc2lt/8TZaFj1kboel XpN2pqc8I7CVuzZcYxiwkRw5CNdR3gGfqYrJ0= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition :references; b=OsILf4Zd0npra7ErmGGn9B6is6F/bMV/HbrdnFVw5x58DBjnuXwe3xVhAVWqPhj9FI /+ISP7fhhMZRLpdVki42VCQ3K8SAvCJyjPtYeyeWSJSJBKFUGGyYxEyRzXmUNwRYTrMf 4qXaMhA9jIAdcJI1m8/Svxrpj6e7NhMfx25uI= Received: by 10.210.125.7 with SMTP id x7mr4786768ebc.90.1225031427977; Sun, 26 Oct 2008 07:30:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.210.141.18 with HTTP; Sun, 26 Oct 2008 07:30:27 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: Content-Disposition: inline Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On 26 Oct 2008 15:15:57 +0100, Jakub Narebski wrote: > 1. Documentation and ease of use. > > Mercurial is supposedly better documented and easier to use; I > think this descends from the early days of Git, where it was not > very user friendly. IMHO Git has much improved since. Mercurial > had 'hgbook' from the beginning; Git User's Manual is more recent. Also, there is http://book.git-scm.com/ that is similar to hgbook, I think. Thanks for the comprarision! -- . Hoc est simplicissimum! ..: maxim.vuets.name