Re: VCS (was: hurd-web/hurd/translator/unionmount.mdwn)

[Sergiu Ivanov]

Hello,

On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 12:44:55AM +0200, olafBuddenhagen@gmx.net wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 08, 2009 at 10:08:23AM +0300, Sergiu Ivanov wrote:
> 
> > Seeing how advertently you propagate Mercurial in every applicable
> > task, I think I'll have to have a look at it :-) It should be worth
> > the time ;-)
> 
> Only if you actually get involved in a project using it.
> 
> Learning another VCS just for the sake of it is surely not worth the
> time. The only major advantage of Mercurial over Git seems to be that
> it's easier to grasp initially (at least for people coming from CVS/SVN)
> -- and as you already know Git fairly well, there is nothing to win
> there for you...

Hm, I thought there would be more differences than that.  Although
from your discussion with Arne last summer I could only suppose that
git and Mercurial are very similar in many approaches.

In this case I'll postpone learning Mercurial to some indefinite time.

Regards,
scolobb