Linus Torvalds discussing source control programs and GIT

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Sat, Jan 18, 2014 at 10:52:37PM -0800, Ben Walton wrote:
> He's right. :)
> 
> There are corner cases where the file view is still better than
> content view, but for 99.9% of the cases out there, managing file
> content is much saner and far more powerful. If your project isn't
> absolutely massive (it's not) in terms of file/directory count, using
> something like subversion is not the right choice.
> 
> I personally prefer git as it's a real power tool, but mercurial would
> also be a workable choice. Interestingly, it seems that git and
> mercurial are the only two real choices left in the dvcs field...all
> others seem to have fallen by the wayside.

Yes he is right.  CVS was a disaster, and subversion is too for trying
to fix CVS.

Some people think bazaar is an option, but I don't particularly like it.
git seems most common, with mercurial certainly a good choice too.

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Len Sorensen
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