Re: Call Me Gitless

From: Martin Langhoff <martin.langhoff@gmail.com>
Date: Aug 18, 2008, 00:40 UTC
Message-ID: <46a038f90808171740ncfa74fg99c546abc6dd65d0@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <4b6f054f0808171702q10d89dfey98afa65634d26e91@mail.gmail.com>

On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 12:02 PM, Trans <transfire@gmail.com> wrote:

> Well, after a few days of using git, I've decide Linus is too smart to
> be designing end-user interfaces.

I think you'll find all the current DSCMs have converged to a similar core set of commands. Commit/diff/log are in the same place as anyone would expect. The main difference from the svn/cvs world is the push/pull pair. The only really new thing that git brings to bear is that we have an index and our doco is slightly more jargon-laden (but several of the intros that abound 'round the net are fantastic).

In any case, have safe travels. A lot of people have found Hg to be almost the same but simpler, and a good part of them have later come back to git. Others have had a similar experience with BazaarNG. Things are far from settled.

DSCMs have mostly sane storage models, so it's possible to write lossless importers/exporters. So you can transform your git repos into hg, and do the reverse trip if/when you want to try git again.

enjoy,

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