Re: Mercurial vs. git

[Sergiu Ivanov]

Hello,

On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 02:57:53PM +0200, Arne Babenhauserheide wrote:
> Am Mittwoch, 23. September 2009 14:16:47 schrieb Sergiu Ivanov:
> > > You have different instances of the history, but all data _which isn't
> > > changed_ is a simple hardlink.
> > 
> > Aha, I see.  Sorry for talking rubbish :-(
> 
> No problem. 
> 
> Btw: There is an extension which makes two working directories share exactly 
> the same history, so your thought isn't that rubbish. 

Hehe :-) Good news, thank you :-)
  
> > A smooth learning curve is a great thing, though :-) I think I like
> > smoother learning curves better :-) Though I wouldn't say that the
> > learning curve in git is so extremely steep.
> 
> At least it still has some not-so-small stumbling blocks in it - for example 
> its extremely long help output. 
 
I usually prefer to have a long output than some witty short text
which contains some jokes, some vague indications, and no real
instructions.  (I don't remember examples, but I've surely run into
something like this in the past)

Regards,
scolobb