Git is awesome

So what are those things that impressed you with Git lately?

Will jboss consider using Git in future?

Have you tried Mercurial and compared it with Git?

Git continues to give me pleasant surprises - I have to yet to find anything that I dislike!

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Zemian Deng wrote on Sep 03, 2010 23:24:
So what are those things that impressed you with Git lately?

It adapts to pretty much any workflow, and the various operations behave how I intuitively expect them to. It also is insanely fast and bundles by default a huge amount of supporting features included (like rebase, bisect, patch formatting, etc)

Will jboss consider using Git in future?

A number of us have been using it for some time now, and a few projects have converted to it as the primary revisioning tool.

Have you tried Mercurial and compared it with Git?

Yes I did play with it. I preferred Git's way of doing branches, and I didn't like how you had to load a bunch of extensions to get a complete feature set.

http://www.infoq.com/interviews/chacon-github

There are a number of things that we’re working on. We have GitHub:FI, which is installable inside your firewall. For large companies that don’t want to host their code on GitHub we’ve been working on that. We’ve been hiring some people to help us get that to be a better product. Basically one of my big goals for the last couple of months (and probably it will be through the next year) has been making GitHub work with other version control systems. Git is very nice as a tool because it has a very simple storage mechanism and so it’s very generally applicable.

Interesting read/viewing.

enjoy.

Jason Greene wrote on Sep 07, 2010 12:20:
Yes I did play with it. I preferred Git's way of doing branches, and I didn't like how you had to load a bunch of extensions to get a complete feature set.

Personally, that's my favorite part of Mercurial. I like not being bogged down by a number of assumed features.