Notes/Domino XPages Development Forum - Git or Mercurial ( Hg )

Feb 12, 2012, 3:23 PM

586 Posts

Re: Git or Mercurial ( Hg )

I'll just add at the moment that Declan and I and Mike McGarel use Hg in the day job and not had a problem. I have a NotesIn9 on using Hg with bitbucket.org that will be out in a day or two in case anyones interest in it with a cloud type host.

~Ben Cisfoosonlen

Feb 12, 2012, 5:22 PM

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Re: Git or Mercurial ( Hg )

I prefer Git, mainly because of its "bigger and better" community and supporting tools (gitflow) and websites such as www.github.com.

And there probably are some technical reasons why Git is used for some pretty big projects such as Linux Kernel or Drupal to name just few.

~Sven Elfanamarlen

Feb 13, 2012, 10:23 AM

1 Posts

Re: Git or Mercurial ( Hg )

We've been using Mercurial in a production for some three months. We have seen both good and bad - I will write a blog post about it soon. Hopefully, we'll be able to extract some of our experiences and convert them into useable knowledge.

Sasa

~Ben Cisfoosonlen

Feb 13, 2012, 6:33 PM

6 Posts

Re: Git or Mercurial ( Hg )

probably the best answer can be found at http://gitvsmercurial.com/ :)

~Karl Kigerosterikle

Feb 21, 2012, 3:57 PM

122 Posts

Re: Git or Mercurial ( Hg )

Mercurial was my initial tool of choice, thanks to Dave Leedy's tutorial. But I found that it failed to push up a large database. It turned out it was because of the size. I ended up having to push it in three chunks, which was a huge pain.

I then used Git. The only problem I had was needing to set the HOME environment variable, but this solved the problem http://support.microsoft.com/kb/816313. I've not had a problem pushing up a database with that.