[wellylug] CVS woe

[Bruce Hoult]

On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 4:30 PM, John Barstow <jbowtie at amathaine.com> wrote:
> Mercurial is very stable, well respected, good command line. Performance is
> comparable to git and it's cross-platform. Will be learning it soon as
> Python is switching to it. It's not under as heavy development as Bazaar or
> Git, mainly because it's more mature.
>
> Git is the new hotness. It has the best performance, and a very large user
> base. It has awful documentation, an idiosyncratic command-line, and is
> Windows-unfriendly (parts of it are written in shell script!). It also
> enables some extremely powerful workflows, and is the best choice for very
> large projects. Lots of open source projects use it, including the Linux
> kernel, KDE, and GNOME.

Note that Mozilla uses Mercurial.  That's not a small project!!!