Comments on: I love staring at branches and shuffle, reorder and squash commits http://durdn.com/blog/2009/08/16/i-love-staring-at-branches-and-shuffle-reorder-and-squash-commits/ modern alchemy for joyful living. Sat, 31 Oct 2009 20:06:41 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: nick http://durdn.com/blog/2009/08/16/i-love-staring-at-branches-and-shuffle-reorder-and-squash-commits/comment-page-1/#comment-994 nick Mon, 17 Aug 2009 18:27:20 +0000 http://durdn.com/blog/?p=48#comment-994 The staging area is quite powerful, once you start using it. git commit --interactive I mentioned above is an example of a use for it. Splitting in-file hunks into separate commits is wonderful. Try it! Github is a real motivation, trust me. It's a totally new way of interacting and coding together. It's not about servers and free hosting. It's about workflow and network with your peer developers. It's very valuable in my opinion. I salute and I am happy that the Python team chose a DVCS, whichever it might be. It's a good thing(tm). And I read the whole PEP and discussions on why in the end they did go with mercurial. It makes perfect sense for them. git and hg are both tremendous efforts and are revolutionizing software development. It's just that my fingers and brain is wrapped around git for now. And I love it. The staging area is quite powerful, once you start using it. git commit –interactive I mentioned above is an example of a use for it. Splitting in-file hunks into separate commits is wonderful. Try it!

Github is a real motivation, trust me. It’s a totally new way of interacting and coding together. It’s not about servers and free hosting. It’s about workflow and network with your peer developers. It’s very valuable in my opinion.

I salute and I am happy that the Python team chose a DVCS, whichever it might be. It’s a good thing(tm). And I read the whole PEP and discussions on why in the end they did go with mercurial. It makes perfect sense for them.

git and hg are both tremendous efforts and are revolutionizing software development.

It’s just that my fingers and brain is wrapped around git for now. And I love it.

]]> By: Pedro http://durdn.com/blog/2009/08/16/i-love-staring-at-branches-and-shuffle-reorder-and-squash-commits/comment-page-1/#comment-993 Pedro Mon, 17 Aug 2009 17:44:43 +0000 http://durdn.com/blog/?p=48#comment-993 Ok, let me be the Devil's advocate here. That page's comparison of Git and Mercurial does not provide enough motivation for preferring one over the other, IMHO. 1. Cheap local branching: Mercurial does this. And I've never had problems with speed. 2. Staging area: Never had any good use for it. My workflow usually is add->commit immediately. 3. GitHub: Really? Is this a motivation, with today's cheap servers available all over the web? Besides all of this, Mercurial was chosen by Guido Van Rossum for storing the python source code. Being a python lover yourself you should know better than piss off the BDFL of python like that ;) Ok, let me be the Devil’s advocate here. That page’s comparison of Git and Mercurial does not provide enough motivation for preferring one over the other, IMHO.

1. Cheap local branching: Mercurial does this. And I’ve never had problems with speed.
2. Staging area: Never had any good use for it. My workflow usually is add->commit immediately.
3. GitHub: Really? Is this a motivation, with today’s cheap servers available all over the web?

Besides all of this, Mercurial was chosen by Guido Van Rossum for storing the python source code. Being a python lover yourself you should know better than piss off the BDFL of python like that ;)

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