Episode 40: Source Code Management Blowout!

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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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One Response to “Episode 40: Source Code Management Blowout!”

• 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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