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Re: BazaarNG and Mercurial and Git

pradeep — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 05:04:21 -0000

Hg is faster than bzr but git is much faster than Hg.
Atleast on my Pentium D machine it is.

Has nice branches feature in the same directory which is really really helpful.

Tags act as checkpointing snapshots for me.

I can create a new branch from a working tag or overwrite a messed up branch :-).

indeed there are too many commands but essential ones are very simple to use.

In end IMHO git is way to go if you are choosing to manage your src on a POSIX complaint filesystem.

If you prefer windows ,i ll suggest Hg.

thanks

Re: BazaarNG and Mercurial and Git

Bryan O'Sullivan — Tue, 20 Jun 2006 11:36:27 -0000

Coming very late to the game, but Mercurial is still a lot faster than bzr, and handles in-repo branching, a la git.

Re: BazaarNG and Mercurial and Git

James Henstridge — Thu, 27 Apr 2006 10:32:07 -0000

You might want to check out bzr 0.8 when it comes out (should be within a week), as it addresses a number of the issues you bring up.

There is a new branch format that will improve network performance.

There is a new repository concept that allows you to share the version control information for multiple branches in a shared location (a parent directory). If your branches are related, this will save a lot of space. You can also have branches without a working tree (i.e. only version control data).

And while bzr is backed by Canonical, there is a fair number of external contributors (just check the revision history).