Mercurial Vs. Monotone & Darcs

[Theodore Tso]

On Tue, Jul 10, 2007 at 05:09:47PM +0200, Mirza Hadzic wrote:
> My feeling is that Mercurial and git are becoming two mainstream 
> options, Mercurial for multi-platform and Git for Linux-only projects. 
> Linus noted this as well in his google-video git presentation.

That may be somewhat true today (although Git works just fine on other
pretty much everything except windows -- MacOS, Unix systems, etc.; so
the issue is that projects who need native Windows support tend to
chose Hg).  However, as they say, the only thing which is constant is
change....

There is work to add 1st class Windows support to git, and the bzr
developers are working to make their system faster, and the hg folks
have been busy adding better branch support, etc.  And while once a
project picks a SCM, it does take effort to switch SCM's, however
these days the tools to import and export repositories from one tool
to another are pretty good, so it's not that hard to do.

So what people pick may change 6-9 months from now, but that's always
true.  

   	       	    	     	 	    - Ted