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git is used by a bigger project (the kernel), that's mainly why. they're all ok, otherwise, even with their technical differences. github also contributed to a
by zobzu 13y ago
git is used by a bigger project (the kernel), that's mainly why. they're all ok, otherwise, even with their technical differences.
github also contributed to amplify the adoption as its makes it really easy to use (even thus people generally use git in a non-distributed way with github)
(i do prefer git in usage, tho, but thats subjective i suppose)
- DigitalJack 13y agofor me it's the easy branching and rebasing that make git the winner. That's in spite of the inconsistent cli. If Hg were as good at branching and rebasing, I'd reconsider it. btw, anyone know of a python command line client for git? I just keep finding stuff for programmatically using git and that's not what I want.
- lmm 13y agoWhat do you mean, a python command line client? If you're using it from the command line and not programmatically, why does it matter what language it's written in? (gitless may possibly be what you want)
- pritambaral 13y agoIt matters if you want to hack on it.
- DigitalJack 13y agoportability
- peacetara 13y agohttp://www.samba.org/~jelmer/dulwich/ http://www.samba.org/~jelmer/dulwich/
- DigitalJack 13y agoThanks!
- krakensden 13y agoAnd Xorg, and Samba, and Wine, and a bunch of other projects. In retrospect, people overestimate github's impact, I think. "Fast enough for big projects like the kernel" was a big deal.