[Scummvm-devel] Hg Init: a Mercurial tutorial

[Max Horn]

Am 11.04.2010 um 09:26 schrieb yotam barnoy:

> Thanks Filippos! 
> 
> I found this intro excellent. I think a move to mercurial would be good for us. 
> Having taken a peek at both mercurial and git, I have to say mercurial seems more appealing.

I actually still prefer git in many ways. We just had yet another discussion on the subject on IRC, too ;). It's many smaller things that I personally just prefer in git. I actually wanted to be fair and give mercurial another thorough try today, using hgsubversion to clone some ScummVM repos data and work with that. In the couple hours I spent with it, mercurial already froze completely four times -- it was so thoroughly hanging that I had to kill -9 it, nothing else worked :-(. Not a good start, but I'll try to try it a bit more :)


Here are some links for people who want to try git on Windows:

<http://www.lostechies.com/blogs/jason_meridth/archive/2009/06/01/git-for-windows-developers-git-series-part-1.aspx>
<http://www.mohundro.com/blog/2010/02/04/SomeTipsOnUsingGitWithWindows.aspx>

If you insist on a GUI (I didn't use a GUI for any VCS work in many years, but I know many of you out there want one), take a look at
<https://git.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/InterfacesFrontendsAndTools#Graphical_Interfaces>



Cheers,
Max