Re: [xml-dev] XML/XSL Revision Control/ Source Code Versioning:Ideas, Me

[John Cowan <cowan@mercury.ccil.org>]

Norman Gray scripsit:

> I think those are mostly problems of git rather than Mercurial.  It's
> one of my objections to git that it requires you to have internalised
> quite a lot about its view of the world, before you can make sense of
> even simple actions.  Mercurial tends to have a much more civil on-ramp.

I agree.  After many years of RCS, CVS, and svn, I started on a project
three years ago that uses Mercurial, and all I had to learn at first was
"clone", "pull", "update" (which "pull" helpfully suggests), "diff",
"commit", and "push".  I've also used "merge" and "resolve" when the
client told me to, used "export" when a team member asked me to, and
learned "log", "incoming" and "outgoing" on my own.  Easy-peasy.

My only use of git has been on projects where I don't have commit access,
and it's "clone" and "pull" and that's it, fortunately for me.  Besides,
I hate being insulting to anyone, and I twitch slightly when I have to
type "git pull".

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