Category Archives: Mercurial

I’ve moved back to Github

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I used to have a Github account and later eventually deleted it. I felt Mercurial was a superior source control system and so I wanted to stick with that. At work we switched to using git. And that’s when I discovered gitextensions.

Gitextensions in my opinion makes git usable for me on Windows. My only real complaint with git was that there wasn’t a good gui for it on Windows. Git also has a few features that I can definitely say are superior to Mercurial, fast-forwarding for instance.

I’ve moved most of my open source code over to Github as of now. There are some things that I haven’t moved and probably will never move but will remain on Codeplex.

Switching from Git to Mercurial

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I’ve decided to make the switch from using git to Mercurial. Git’s syntax to me is much more complicated than it needs to be and Mercurial seems to be more my style. I find it’s much easier to find out how to do things with Mercurial and to be honest, I use about 10% of the functionality in either git or Mercurial.

This also means I’ll be transitioning Snowball to Codeplex I think. I’ll be moving it away from GitHub for sure just not 100% sure where.