Sonntag, Mai 16, 2010

Why I Switched to Git From Mercurial — Extra Cheese

Why I Switched to Git From Mercurial — Extra Cheese

I used Mercurial for three years, but started switching to Git about a year ago. I now grudgingly recommend Git to anyone who intends to be a full-time programmer. Git's interface is bad in many ways, which is the main complaint about it, and it's a legitimate one. It's just an interface, though, and this is a tool you're going to use all day, every day, in a wide variety of situations.

Hg Init: a Mercurial tutorial by Joel Spolsky

Hg Init: a Mercurial tutorial by Joel Spolsky

Hg Init: a Mercurial tutorial
Mercurial is a modern, open source, distributed version control system, and a compelling upgrade from older systems like Subversion. In this user-friendly, six-part tutorial, Joel Spolsky teaches you the key concepts.

Things You Should Never Do, Part I - Joel on Software



Well, yes. They did. They did it by making the single worst strategic mistake that any software company can make:

They decided to rewrite the code from scratch.