[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]
Re: preferring mercurial
From: |
Barry Warsaw |
Subject: |
Re: preferring mercurial |
Date: |
Thu, 9 Jan 2014 15:28:46 -0500 |
On Jan 09, 2014, at 07:35 AM, Neal Becker wrote:
>I don't understand the git momentum. I've use hg heavily, and am generally
>happy with it.
>
>Every time I have to use git, I have a terrible time. I find it vastly more
>complicated than hg. The docs (in the form of man pages) I find never answer
>my questions. Each one seems to cover 100 different topics, variations and
>corner cases. Trying to read this requires a vast new vocabulary or arcane
>terms.
I agree in terms of git's --help docs. Here's a not-a-metric:
% git merge --help | wc -l
630
% bzr merge --help | wc -l
116
% hg merge --help | wc -l
35
Is it possible to be *too* helpful? :)
I highly recommend O'Reilly's book on git by Loeliger and McCullough (2nd
edition). It has the clearest explanation of git's model that I've seen, with
nice pictures for emphasis. As a bzr > hg > git > svn > cvs > rcs fan, I
wouldn't say the book has made me love git, but it has certainly helped me
make peace with it, to paraphrase a different post in this thread.
-Barry
signature.asc
Description: PGP signature
- Re: preferring mercurial, (continued)
- Re: preferring mercurial, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso, 2014/01/10
- Re: preferring mercurial, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2014/01/10
- Re: preferring mercurial, David Engster, 2014/01/10
- Re: preferring mercurial, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso, 2014/01/10
- Re: preferring mercurial, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2014/01/11
- Re: preferring mercurial, David Kastrup, 2014/01/11
- Re: preferring mercurial, Martin Geisler, 2014/01/15
Re: preferring mercurial, Martin Geisler, 2014/01/15
Re: preferring mercurial, Yuri Khan, 2014/01/09
Re: preferring mercurial,
Barry Warsaw <=