Comments on: Version Control http://www.extinguishedscholar.com/wpglob/?p=282 Powered by work over time. Tue, 21 Feb 2012 17:54:57 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: natevw http://www.extinguishedscholar.com/wpglob/?p=282&cpage=1#comment-3459 natevw Thu, 01 May 2008 15:32:28 +0000 http://www.extinguishedscholar.com/wpglob/?p=282#comment-3459 ...and as Dave Dribin points out in his "Why I Chose Mercurial" article, DVCS itself is still a [growing] fringe of version control. Of course, I'm just a user, not a developer, and not even a real power-user either. Which makes me the flea on the underarm of the underdog of the underdog's underdog. Wow. I've never been good at rolling with the cool crowd, but since when was blogging <em>bad</em> for the ego? ;-) Seriously though, there are enough repository conversion utilities floating around already (and the code seems to be modular enough) that I feel comfortable using the one I enjoy. I do keep Mercurial current on my machines too, for other uses, so collaboration with that crowd shouldn't be a problem even if I use a less popular one for my own projects. …and as Dave Dribin points out in his “Why I Chose Mercurial” article, DVCS itself is still a [growing] fringe of version control. Of course, I’m just a user, not a developer, and not even a real power-user either. Which makes me the flea on the underarm of the underdog of the underdog’s underdog. Wow. I’ve never been good at rolling with the cool crowd, but since when was blogging bad for the ego? ;-)

Seriously though, there are enough repository conversion utilities floating around already (and the code seems to be modular enough) that I feel comfortable using the one I enjoy. I do keep Mercurial current on my machines too, for other uses, so collaboration with that crowd shouldn’t be a problem even if I use a less popular one for my own projects.

]]> By: Jonathan Wight http://www.extinguishedscholar.com/wpglob/?p=282&cpage=1#comment-3457 Jonathan Wight Thu, 01 May 2008 13:50:07 +0000 http://www.extinguishedscholar.com/wpglob/?p=282#comment-3457 I use hg and feel like an underdog (to git). This would make you an underdog's underdog... I use hg and feel like an underdog (to git). This would make you an underdog’s underdog…

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