Mercurial presentation ideas
Dirkjan Ochtman
dirkjan at ochtman.nl
Sat May 1 06:50:51 UTC 2010
On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 18:13, Chris Sutton <bdsutton at gmail.com> wrote:
> So here are a couple of questions:
> -What were your reasons for switching to Mercurial?
Mozilla's announced move inspired confidence and I needed something
that worked well on Windows.
> -Why do you use prefer Mercurial to source control tools like Subversion,
> TFS and other centralized tools?
It's fast and nimble.
> -How does using hg improve how you work with your source?
It makes me commit more often, which means better commit logs. Merging
is painless. Mercurial (sometimes through extensions) has a lot of
functionality that SVN doesn't have, like record, mq, bisect, color.
Cheers,
Dirkjan
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