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Does that mean you were going from hg to git? Any specific reason for that? Any opinion on the two? (I've been using git for a little bit but wonder if Mercuri

Does that mean you were going from hg to git? Any specific reason for that? Any opinion on the two? (I've been using git for a little bit but wonder if Mercurial could be more powerful but less popular, and that I'd be missing out)

dmpayton 16y ago
I initially decided on HG because I'm a Python developer, and a lot of other people in the Python community seem to recommend it (plus, HG is written in Python). Bitbucket had a free plan with a private repo, so I signed up. About the same time, my employer started migrating from Subversion to Git. For me, the two features I miss most in HG are the staging area and cheap local branching. There plugins that give you rough equivalents, but I haven't used them and it's much nicer to have what you need out of the box.
- mgeisler 16y ago
  Mercurial does come with everything out of the box in the form of standard extensions that you just need to enable if you need them: * mq is a "staging area on steroids": http://stevelosh.com/blog/2010/08/a-git-users-guide-to-mercurial-queues/ http://stevelosh.com/blog/2010/08/a-git-users-guide-to-mercu... * bookmarks lets you name your cheaper-than-Git branches: http://stevelosh.com/blog/2010/02/mercurial-workflows-branch-as-needed/ http://stevelosh.com/blog/2010/02/mercurial-workflows-branch...
  - dmpayton 16y ago
    Thanks for the tips! MQ and bookmarks look like they could be a solid fill-in for Gits staging area and cheap branching. I'll definitely look more into them.
- stonemetal 16y ago
  How is Git's branching Cheaper than HG's? The only major difference I know of is an almost immaterial implementation detail.