[antlr-interest] [stringtemplate-interest] anybody care to comment on bitbucket.org?

Terence Parr parrt at cs.usfca.edu
Tue Jan 10 16:46:01 PST 2012


Very useful information Kieran. thanks!

I will give hg a test drive and try to keep both in parallel for little while. Of course this has to wait until it bumps up in priority.

Ter
On Jan 10, 2012, at 4:35 PM, Kieran Simpson wrote:

> On 23/07/64 5:59 AM, Terence Parr wrote:
>> 
>> On Jan 9, 2012, at 2:11 PM, Barrie Treloar wrote:
>> 
>>> On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 5:33 AM, Terence Parr<parrt at cs.usfca.edu>  wrote:
>>>> Contemplating switch to mercurial and hosting at bitbucket.org.
>>>> Ter
>>> 
>>> You've already got someone syncing to github.
>>> Why not use that instead?
>> 
>> I hate git… because I don't understand it ;) hg was easy and obvious.  mercurial works with intellij (well I hope) so it will be okay for me.
> 
> I've used both Git and Hg for complicated projects and Hg is easier to 
> understand, more intuitive (Git's syntax is really non-intuitive IMO), 
> better documented, has better tooling.  It's also easier to fix mistakes 
> in Hg than Git IMHO.  Once one can use MQ one has all the flexibility 
> one needs.
> 
> Hg also doesn't allow you to blow your leg off like Git does.  Hg at 
> least warns you first ;)
> 
> I also prefer Bitbucket over GitHub.
> 
>>> I'm new to both mercurial (1 project) and git (2+ projects).
>>>> From the small amount of reading I've done they appear to be on par,
>>> with a slight leaning towards git.
>>> Eclipse is moving to git.
> 
> The plugins for Eclipse/IntelliJ are quite good (I'm an Eclipse user, 
> some of my colleagues are IntelliJ)
> 
>>> Linux is git.
>>> I'm not familiar enough with other big players that are using
>>> mercurial. (Maybe the old sun sources...)
>>> 
>>> I've used bitbucket and github.
>>> Dont really have any opinions since my head space is still stuck in
>>> svn and need more time/practice to get it out.
>>> However I love the idea of
>>> * git stash
>>> * git bisect
> 
> Hg does have a bisect command, and there is the HgShelve extension that 
> is much like Git's stash feature.
> 
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