Re: Google Code: Support for Mercurial and Analysis of Git and Mercurial

> Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org> writes:
> 
>> For information, now Google Code supports Mercurial for project hosting:
>>
>> http://google-code-updates.blogspot.com/2009/04/mercurial-support-for-project-hosting.html
>>
>> Mercurial was choosen over Git because of this (one year old) analysis:
>>
>> http://code.google.com/p/support/wiki/DVCSAnalysis
>>
>> There is this article on LWN about the analysis:
>>
>> http://lwn.net/Articles/330138/
> 
> It is a pity that the choice was based on year old analysis.  One year
> for actively developed and fast moving targets such like Git and
> Mercurial is ages in terms of development history.  But I guess this
> is unavoidable.
> 
> For example periodic "maintenance" (garbage collecting) is nowadays
> quite automatic in git, with fetching into pack, periodic repacking if
> number of loose objects is above tthreshold, and "git gc --auto".
> 
> Whether Mercurial or Git has better UI and better documentation is
> IMHO a matter of debate.  Git documentation is much better that it
> was, with "Git User's Manual" and "Git Community Book"; UI also is
> being improved.
> 
> I can't comment on MS Windows support, but AFAIK Mercurial has better
> support here than Git.
> 
> 
> The deciding feature (well, one of deciding features) was the fact
> that Mercurial has better HTTP support... I guess (it was not obvious
> from the analysis, but it was hinted at) that Mercurial uses its
> custom protocol over HTTP, as opposed to "dumb" HTTP protocol support
> in Git.
> 
> Perhaps it is time to restart work on _"smart" HTTP protocol_?
>