Daniel Myers

So in the rounds that I go on the internet I came across this article: Git vs. Mercurial: Please Relax. Had I seen this back when I was reading up on dvcs it would have swayed my decision on which one to go with back then. But since I have read it and I thought it was a well represented case between git and mercurial I figured that I would at least look into it a bit more. Fast forward a little bit and I had made the decision to move most of my major projects over to git and use mercurial on a more case by case basis. Hence the last post about moving things around and changing how I was going to be working on stuff in general. Since then I successfully moved my World of Warcraft mod xcalc over to a git repo on curseforge. I didn't really worry to much about keeping the total history of the mod as in all reality not much has changed in its code base in nearly 2 years other than a few bug fixes here and there and toc updates. Even so it is a good feeling to have it on a full dvcs instead of how things were laid out before. As I go I will be moving the rest of my stuff over to git, maybe a bit slowly but will work on it as I go along.
Overall my thoughts on git is it is nice and not uncomfortable. A few things about interacting with git in general. Now I am just as happy and content using command line tools on the command line, but as things go along I find that using a Gui to interact with some of those tools is helpful. Not so much a necessity but helpful either way. Git does have a couple of Gui's for the system, one even comes packaged with it and for the mac another called Gitx. My only complaint here is neither is really all that up to par with the command lines. Basically it means that some operations still need to be performed on the command line and hopefully over time these various Guis will come up to par. Don't get me wrong here either, mercurial has similar issues with the guis that are available for it. I think a little more time and everything will come around nicely for both of them. I am also sure for various projects I will flip between both depending on the agenda for the program will be.