Posted in versioncontrol, git, dvcs on Oct 20th, 2007 1 Comment »
A nice feature of distributed version control is that you can commit into your repository more often because you aren’t impacting others with each commit. Recently I’ve been taking this to the extreme using git and performing a commit almost at every save. I have an emacs key wired for the job: it save the […]
Posted in General, Python, workfriendly, programming, versioncontrol on May 9th, 2006 3 Comments »
Ok - for me it boils down to: hg’s speed vs bzr’s renames
Mercurial is much much quicker. That’s not an imperical measurement using a large source tree - it’s an anecdotal observation on a tiny one.
For example, just typing ‘hg’ returns in 80ms, ‘bzr’ takes more than half a second: That’s just to dump the […]
Posted in General, Python, BicycleRepairMan, workfriendly, versioncontrol on Apr 26th, 2006 4 Comments »
I’ve been using bazaarNG (bzr) for bicyclerepairman version control recently, but I’ve also got a close eye on Mercurial(hg) and Git.
Git is Linus’ implementation of a distributed SCM tool (sort of) for use with managing the decentralized development of the linux kernel, Mercurial is a project started at much the same time as Linux steered […]
