Episode 40: Source Code Management Blowout!

This week’s Faceoff is the differences between Source Code Management (SCM) software.

Topics

Source Code Management
- 3:39 – Centralized
  - Subversion
- 11:05 – Distributed
  - Git
    - The new SCM
    - Digg uses git!
  - 18:35 – Mercurial
    - Easy to learn
    - Almost identical commands as git, very interchanged
    - Revision numbers as well as hash
    - .hgignore works the same as .gitignore
    - hg serve
    - localhost:8000
    - http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/ConvertExtension

Tags: digg, git, hg, mercurial, subversion, svn

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Eric Wendelin Says:
November 3rd, 2009 at 9:56 am
Killer comparison between git and hg. Very nice. It should be noted that git has better merge capabilities built-in. hg has some good plugins for it, though.

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