From: twinandi@...
Date: 2008-10-01T17:14:01+09:00
Subject: Re: Revision control for Ruby

David Masover wrote:

> Which part? The "distributed", the "really fast", or the cross-platform?
:D The combination of all of them ... mostly the cross-platform-thing ...
the distribution makes life easier ... and the Speed ... hmm... for me
thats not THAT critical.

> Git works natively on Linux and OS X, and has a mingw32 port for Windows.
> Whether mingw32 is "native" is up for debate, but it's certainly more
> native (and faster!) than Cygwin.
> Git is also just about the fastest SCM I've EVER used -- not that I've
> benchmarked, but I very much doubt Mercurial (being written in Python) has
> it beat.
> 
> And yes, Git is distributed.
I've tried Git a few Weeks ago, and yes it's speed on really large
repositories iss probably unbeatable (for now?) Because of the "Git-hype"
(everyone speaks about it, its initially made by Linus ... woooah ;), Rails
switched to Git, Github was launched, etc. ) i first tried to use Git and
later switched over to Mercurial, because sometimes i have to use Windows,
just because a Linux is not available. And then i think Mercurial is easier
(for me!) to install. Just windoze-double-click. 
So the easy cross-platform-use is the really cause, why i decided to use
mercurial internal instead of Git.

> Keep in mind that Rails itself is developed on Git, and the Rails source
> is on Github. So yes, Capistrano does support several flavors of Git
> deployments, and I wouldn't be surprised if there was also a Mercurial
> plugin.
I think i have to dig deeper in capistrano, off the beaten track. And/or i
should try Git again ... 

As everytime it gets to a decission wether to use Software A or Software B,
in the end its just subjective

Andi