Fwd: [admin] Decentralized versioning system at W3C; Git vs. Mercurial

From: Arthur Barstow <Art.Barstow@nokia.com> Date: Tue, 22 Dec 2009 13:03:15 -0500 Message-Id: <935914AD-2C69-4EF9-BAF2-8FF57C607FCE@nokia.com> To: public-qa-dev@w3.org · This archive was generated by hypermail 2.2.0+W3C-0.50 : Thursday, 19 August 2010 18:12:50 GMT

Comments from Adam Barth.

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> From: ext Adam Barth <w3c@adambarth.com>
> Date: December 22, 2009 1:36:24 AM EST
>
> I'm a happy git customer.  It's infinitely better than SVN.  My
> understanding is that Mercurial is technically similar to git but
> receives less investment in the form of surrounding tools and
> ecosystem.  For examples, many companies like
> http://repositoryhosting.com/ support git but not Mercurial.
>
> Adam