From: Avdi Grimm Date: 2008-03-26T03:06:19+09:00 Subject: Re: Why git instead of mercurial? On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 1:52 AM, John Wells wrote: > It seems like the hot new thing these days in Ruby-land is to host > your project in git. Cool....I'm very glad distributed vc is finally > getting the attention it deserves. > > However, I'm curious...why are so many in the Ruby community flocking > to git instead of mercurial? For that matter, why not Darcs, which has been around a lot longer, and is generally much simpler to use than Git? Or Bazaar, which tries much harder than most DVCSes to handle merging of renames robustly? I don't really get the popularity of Git. Most of the advocacy I've seen it has really been advocacy for features that all DVCSes have, which suggests to me that a lot of people are being introduced to DVCS via Git. Or maybe it's just the "more is better" mindset: ls /opt/local/bin/git-* | wc -l >> 142 142 commands? It MUST be the best! Personally I think that if you're Linus, Git is undoubtedly the best tool for the job; but my own workflows don't really resemble Linus' much. However, in an Open Source world any DVCS is better than no DVCS, and I'm glad that Git is popularizing the concept. -- Avdi