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

[Kieran Simpson]

You should just go with Hg then.  Don't try to bend the tooling to your 
whims, you'll only get headaches.  Hg will do everything you want and 
better IMO.  At work we've moved to Hg for (among others) these reasons.

On 23/07/64 5:59 AM, Sam Harwell wrote:
> As a bit more background, I do development on many projects in several
> different languages and environments. My "primary" languages are C# and C++
> with Visual Studio. For ANTLR and school I also work in Java using IntelliJ
> and more recently NetBeans. I always use an external GUI for source control
> before checking files in because it gives me extra control in preventing
> mistakes when working on someone else's project - I diff every file to
> ensure that my code formatting and even whitespace match the settings of
> code around my changes. I find that when it specifically comes to checking
> files in, IDE integrations can occasionally have "glitches" (unexpected
> behavior, nuances, and/or bugs) so I avoid them.
>
> For external tools, I find P4V (Perforce) feature rich but slow and
> particularly cumbersome when it comes to experimenting with code checked out
> from a read-only repository. Nevertheless, I frequently use it since
> Perforce is the chosen SCC for all the commercial projects I've been
> involved with. TortoiseHG Workbench has been exceptional (but not perfect),
> and has stable, complete support across all of the development environments
> I work with. TortoiseSVN is truly polished and performs very well, but
> suffers from limitations imposed by SVN itself.
>
> Git concerns me not only for falling behind these in toolchain/GUI support
> on Windows, but I also don't see a big movement to close the gap. TortoiseHG
> is a particular example of a very actively developed project with frequent
> releases.
>
> --
> Sam Harwell
> Owner, Lead Developer
> http://tunnelvisionlabs.com
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sujith Pillai [mailto:sujithspillai at gmail.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, January 18, 2012 10:12 AM
> To: Terence Parr
> Cc: stringtemplate-interest List; antlr-interest Interest; Zenaan Harkness
> Subject: Re: [antlr-interest] [stringtemplate-interest] anybody care to
> comment on bitbucket.org?
>
> 1) TortoiseGit - very popular
> 2) msysgit - second
> 3) SmartGit - I have heard good things about this, but haven't met someone
> who uses this (yet).
>
>
>
> On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 11:01 AM, Terence Parr<parrt at cs.usfca.edu>  wrote:
>> I'm leaning towards git but Sam Harwell, who is super important on this
> project, using windows and would need good git gui outside of dev tool. Can
> anybody comment on what is useful (non cmd-line)?
>>
>> Ter
>> On Jan 17, 2012, at 4:08 PM, Zenaan Harkness wrote:
>>
>>> On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 09:54, John D. Mitchell<jdmitchell at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>> Hg and Git are comparable on a feature basis.
>>>
>>> However, Hg and Git are built with very different philosophies. Git is
> perfectly happy to allow mutation of history.
>>>
>>> By default, public repositories are not rebase-able. The fact that
> something _can_ be achieved should not be held against it.
>>>
>>> And locally, if you don't want to rebase, don't. I find that on small,
> private-only "feature" branches or "experiment" branches, that rebasing is a
> useful tool. So is cherry picking. Knowing when to use a powerful tool is
> part of being a good technician/ programmer.
>>>
>>> Git was a steep learning curve for me. "Pro Git" book I find excellent.
> Bought a paper copy.
>>>
>>> I used bitkeeper, arch/tla, and cvs etc. in the past. I think others have
> said, but git stash is a godsend, as well as other bits and bobs.
>>>
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