- From: Arthur Barstow <Art.Barstow@nokia.com>
- Date: Wed, 9 Dec 2009 13:50:20 -0500
- To: public-qa-dev@w3.org
Comments from Jonas (1/2) ... Begin forwarded message: > From: ext Jonas Sicking <jonas@sicking.cc> > Date: December 9, 2009 1:10:33 PM EST > Subject: Re: [admin] Decentralized versioning system at W3C; Git > vs. Mercurial > > We were recently making this exact decision at mozilla not to long > ago. Deciding between git and mercurial for the firefox source code > repository. > > In the end we decided to use mercurial, mostly because the level of > support for git on windows was not good enough. I do not know if this > has changed since then or not. > > After having used mercurial for a while now I do know that I often > find myself having the following conversation: > > me: Arg, it's so frustrating that mercurial doesn't do X > Person B: Agreed. Git can do X > > Granted, it's entirely possible that if we were using git the > conversation would be reversed. But the discussion wasn't really > relevant once we realized that windows support was so lacking. > > / Jonas
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