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Re: To Git or not to Git...

From: Alex Li <alexli_at_gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2011 12:08:18 -0700

Git.

After staying on bzr for 2.5 years, my company moved to git recently. I was
the decision maker both times and felt only Git is getting mainstream
support now.

alex

On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 10:29 AM, Ryan Lubke <ryan.lubke_at_oracle.com> wrote:

> Keep 'em coming!
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> We'd like to close on this by the end of the week, so we'd like to hear
> from more of you.
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> On 4/12/11 2:42 AM, stefano wrote:
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>> git, thumbs up.
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>> On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 7:22 PM, Ryan Lubke<ryan.lubke_at_oracle.com> wrote:
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>>> 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
>>>
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>>>
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