Comments on: GIT is really great

By: glommer

glommer — Sat, 02 Jun 2007 03:26:00 +0000

Oh yes, mercurial is very fast.
When comparing to a lazy turtle, or massive opengl code running in a 286.

But not, never, when compared to git. I use both mercurial (for the xen repository), and git (for the linux repository), and honestly, while mercurial may have some advantages, speed is definitely not one of them.

By: Gustavo Sverzut Barbieri

Gustavo Sverzut Barbieri — Sat, 28 Apr 2007 20:21:29 +0000

Unfortunately comments are moderated to avoid spam… Even with “Akismet has caught 7,366 spam for you since you first installed it.” I still get lots of spam that are avoided by manually approving them.

I’ll check out how to have WordPress to display a message about moderated comments.

By: tekNico

tekNico — Sat, 28 Apr 2007 18:55:00 +0000

By the way, my comment did not appear right after insertion, and I don’t know whether there was some malfunction.

If comments are moderated you should say so, to avoid such uncertainty.

By: tekNico

tekNico — Sat, 28 Apr 2007 18:51:27 +0000

For some reason, a significant number of people programming in Python is using git.

While I realize it’s not a valid tool-choosing criterion for many people, I do prefer tools written in Python.

There are two very good distributed version control systems written in Python: Mercurial and BazaarNG.

Mercurial is the one most similar to git: it’s fast, small both in repo and code size, and able to handle large code bodies (it’s been written by Linux kernel hackers).

BazaarNG, by Canonical, is more featured, including some SVN integration, but slower and larger.

Both have a command set derived from SVN, therefore are fairly easy to learn.