From: Wincent Colaiuta <win@...>
Date: 2008-03-25T22:45:00+09:00
Subject: Re: Why git instead of mercurial?

On 25 mar, 06:52, John Wells <li...@sourceillustrated.com> wrote:

> However, I'm curious...why are so many in the Ruby community flocking
> to git instead of mercurial? It seems that Python/C would be a more
> appealing choice than Perl/C...and given that they're largely
> feature-identical. I'd appreciate any additional insight you might
> provide.

Approximate composition of Git source files, lines of code:

86048 C (81%)
12959 Perl
6714 Shell

Approximate composition of Mercurial source files, lines of code:

36605 Python (94%)
2048 C

So it's not really "Perl/C" vs "Python/C"; it's more like C vs Python
(and as time goes by the proportion of C in Git is only getting
higher).

Cheers,
Wincent