Comments on: Fine. Git is Awesome.

By: Hatem Nassrat

Hatem Nassrat — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 10:51:30 +0000

Mr. Anonymous, your da bomb.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 21:21:10 +0000

check out gitserve to emulate hg serve

By: Ian Lewis

Ian Lewis — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 09:14:52 +0000

These features are absent. You are right. But at the end of the day, forks and pull requests are the truely important features of github/bitbucket.

I can live without the other stuff though they would be nice.

In place editing/committing is something I would probably never ever ever do. I like to test that a change works before commiting it. Maybe for documentation it would be ok, though lots of documentation is generated and you would probably want to make sure it looks the way you want it to before committing.

By: Ian Lewis

Ian Lewis — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 09:07:53 +0000

While with big repos this is a bit of a pain, mercurial local branches can accomplished by simply cloning locally.

hg clone . ../my_local_branch

By: Wm Tanksley

Wm Tanksley — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 01:49:54 +0000

That's not entirely accurate… msys is a set of libraries to allow POSIX applications to (sometimes) run on Windows. Its entire intent was to get rid of the “compatibility layer” problem with cygwin.

I'm not saying you SHOULD be using msys or git; but I am saying that using it is no worse than using any other large, multiplatform library. Certainly Qt would be no better, for example.

There are better reasons; for example, one might dislike the atrociously slow performance of git on Windows after seeing so many people advertise its speed as being one of its best features. Perhaps one might dislike its slapdash implementation in an odd mixture of bash, perl, and C. (And probably others.) I would share those dislikes.