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Re: To Git or not to Git...

From: stefano <s.mastrella_at_gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2011 11:42:20 +0200

git, thumbs up.

On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 7:22 PM, Ryan Lubke <ryan.lubke_at_oracle.com> wrote:
> Hey Folks,
>
> Some of you may have noticed that for several weeks we had switched over
> to Git for Grizzly 2.0 scm services.   Some of you may have *also* noticed
> that towards the middle of this week, we started using Mercurial.
>
> I won't bore you with the details as to why the switch from Git to
> Mercurial was made, however, at this point in time we now have approval
> to use
> what community would prefer (i.e., if the community prefers Git, then
> that's what we'll go with or vice versa).
>
> My two cents on the topic:
>  - Functionally, no clear winner in my book.
>  - Tooling:  I've found the mercurial plugin within Intellij to be
> lacking
>     in some features that I enjoyed while using Git.
>  - Adoption/Growth:  Git appears to have the larger portion of mindshare.
>
>
> So, what would you, members of the community, prefer to use going forward?
>
> [  ]  Git
> [  ]  Mercurial
>
> Please cast your votes!
>
> Thanks,
> -rl
>
>
>