Timeline for Why did Git get so much hype? ...while others don't?
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| Apr 15, 2018 at 13:23 | comment | added | gnasher729 | My first introduction to git was a discussion with a git fan, who told us how everything was so easy with git. And then it turned out that branch merging with git is exactly as difficult as with Perforce, for example. | |
| Mar 4, 2015 at 15:27 | comment | added | 700 Software | What was Eclipse using before Git? | |
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| Jul 29, 2011 at 21:18 | comment | added | ZoFreX | This answer really doesn't answer the question. It explains why git is better than SVN very well, but not really why moreso than hg. Prior to the Eclipse switch to git, the Mercurial tooling in Eclipse was far better than the git plugin. | |
| Jul 29, 2011 at 18:26 | comment | added | user1249 | @jalf, "Git is better than Hg" if you develop Java with Eclipse. | |
| Jul 29, 2011 at 17:52 | comment | added | jalf | Especially because, and this is the funny part, "Git is better than Hg because <insert reason here>" doesn't actually answer the OP's question! | |
| Jul 29, 2011 at 17:44 | comment | added | jalf | @Thorbjørn: I know bazaar can. I'm not familiar enough with Hg to say (although a quick Google seems to indicate that it cannot). However, are you really suggesting that the ability to perform octopus merges is what makes one DVCS better than another? It's not a very common scenario for most people, is it? And again, whether or not Hg has the features you're looking for is pretty irrelevant when you base your answer on "Git is better than Hg because I haven't investigated Hg's capabilities" | |
| Jul 29, 2011 at 17:28 | comment | added | user1249 | @aaronaught, if that is required for you to be able to not use degoratory terms, I'll do my best. | |
| Jul 29, 2011 at 15:48 | comment | added | user1249 | @jalf, well, it lived up to the hype. Can Mercurial merge 12 branches at a time? | |
| Jul 29, 2011 at 15:44 | comment | added | jalf | @Thorbjørn: let me rephrase then: In a question of why Git gets more attention than other DVCS'es, your answer is that "Git does what I need, I haven't checked if that actually sets it apart from other DVCS'es"? In that case, it fails to answer the question, doesn't it? | |
| Jul 29, 2011 at 15:30 | history | edited | Doppelganger | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jul 29, 2011 at 15:25 | comment | added | user1249 | @jalf, I said that git could do branching very well. This combined with the Eclipse migration to git was what did it for us after a "will git do?"-period. I have not investigated to see if Mercurial could do thirteen branches at the same time. | |
| Jul 29, 2011 at 15:03 | history | made wiki | Post Made Community Wiki by R.. GitHub STOP HELPING ICE | ||
| Jul 29, 2011 at 14:37 | comment | added | Aaronaught | I've never seen any convincing examples of how Git is better at merging than Mercurial, and certainly not in this answer. It's almost like you're confusing Hg with SVN or CVS. | |
| Jul 29, 2011 at 14:32 | comment | added | jalf | That's how I interpreted it. Perhaps you could elaborate then? | |
| Jul 29, 2011 at 14:27 | comment | added | user1249 | @jalf, no I do not say that. | |
| Jul 29, 2011 at 14:26 | comment | added | jalf | I'm not sure I see your point here. You're saying that they're equally good at branching (Git does nothing that Mercurial cannot do), but because you need good branching, you chose Git? | |
| Jul 29, 2011 at 13:31 | comment | added | user1249 | Fun thing, they mention Monotone. NOW there is a serious contender for the "forgotten DVCS". | |
| Jul 29, 2011 at 13:30 | comment | added | user1249 | AmV-link: felipec.wordpress.com/2011/01/16/… | |
| Jul 29, 2011 at 13:27 | history | edited | user1249 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jul 29, 2011 at 13:16 | comment | added | Cody Gray | @AmV: Please do not post obfuscated URLs. | |
| Jul 29, 2011 at 12:21 | comment | added | Amelio Vazquez-Reina | +1 It's all in the branches. This analysis discusses the merging power of git in comparison with mercurial. | |
| Jul 29, 2011 at 9:56 | history | edited | user1249 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jul 29, 2011 at 8:53 | history | answered | user1249 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |