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Possible Duplicate: Git equivalents of most common Mercurial commands? Git and Mercurial - Compare and Contrast sometimes programmers are forced to learn lots of tools, some of them are usually ...
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I've been using git for some time now on Windows (with msysGit) and I like the idea of distributed source control. Just recently I've been looking at Mercurial (hg) and it looks interesting. However, ...
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Coming from mercurial, I use branches to organize features. Naturally, I want to see this work-flow in my history as well. I started my new project using git and finished my first feature. When ...
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I use GIT on a Mac. Enough said. I have the tools, I have the experience. And I want to continue to use it. No wars here... The problem is always with interoperability. Most people use SVN, which is ...
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This is a question that's been bothering me for a while. I've done my homework and checked stackoverflow and found at least these two topics about my question: Git for Mercurial like git-svn and Git ...
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Several times, I have come across the statement that, if you move a single function from one file to another file, Git can track it. For example, this entry says, "Linus says that if you move a ...
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I currently use Git, and am generally happy with it, but I'd like to know more about Mercurial. Does it have any advantages over Git? What are the advantages of Git over Mercurial? I realize there ...
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First, let me say I'm not a professional programmer, but an engineer who had a need for it and had to learn. I was always working alone, so it was just me and my seven split personalities ... and we ...
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I've just joined a new company and at the moment we're using Microsoft SourceSafe as our repository. The settings aren't ideal and it's proving to be a big pain in the neck. I've recently used ...
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Everywhere I read about Mercurial and Git they generally throw in a line or two which implies Git has limited ability on Windows (because of some Shell scrips cannot be ported, etc.) but I've never ...
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Please note: I'm not trying to restart the argument whether Mercurial or Git is better, I just have a technical question that I, as a Mercurial user, don't understand. I'm also not sure whether SO is ...
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The Big Three of distributed version control (Git, Bazaar, and Mercurial) each treat branching fairly differently. In Bazaar, for example, branches are separate repos (actually, divergent copies of ...
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I was doing a comparison on speed for GIT and Mercurial. I choose a big project of 9072 files (mainly php files and several images) with a size of 95.1 MB. This is a fake project, and maybe give ...
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I currently use svn at work. Our setup is: everyone has a working copy and we commit to a svn server served by apache2. So I commit changed, the other update, and everyone can work on the copy as ...
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Edit: Ok so I learned that I guess I need an distributed source control, however are there any UI based ones, and do they allow you to merge with other users on the network? This is kind of a two ...
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