On 2/1/13 4:23 PM, Dan Covill wrote:

>> On 2/1/2013 2:32 PM, Ted Roche wrote:

>>> Rick Borup is a fan of Mercurial. He's done some presentations on it. You

>>> ought to be able to find them on the Internets.

>>>

>>> Any distributed version control system (DVCS) like Mercurial, bazaar

>>> or git

>>> is superior to a client-server model like TFS, CVS or SourceSafe.

>>>

>>

> On 02/01/13 11:52 AM, MB Software Solutions, LLC wrote:>

>> I'm betting the logic/code required/written for such systems is very

>> complex. Makes my head hurt just thinking of how to handle all the

>> merging! Flat-out replacements are easy, but those merges, ...<shudder>

>>

> Actually, it's not. Look up some of the Mercurial tutorials to see exactly how they

> handle splits and merges. Ted is right.

>

> I've never run Visual SourceSafe (thank god!) nor svn, but I did fire up Mercurial

> with the Tortoise UI, and found it quite easy to get running. (My understanding is

> that Mozilla uses Mercurial while the Linux folks use Git.)

>

> IMO, the great advantage of a distributed system like Mercurial or Git is that you

> DON'T HAVE ANY 'Team Foundation Server' to administer!

I've been meaning to try Mercurial for years, especially since it is Python-based. I

hear that it is super-easy. Having said that, I'm loving Git. Being able to do

everything locally is amazingly cool and blazing fast.

Paul

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