Promoting the use of Mercurial; was: Re: gnome dvcs survey results

[Theodore Tso]

On Wed, Jan 07, 2009 at 02:25:27PM -0500, Gabor Grothendieck wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 1:33 PM, Theodore Tso <tytso at mit.edu> wrote:
> > (already done in git 1.6), and there are developers that are working
> > quite steadily on the Windows ports.
> 
> How will this work?  You can't have a true Windows system if its
> written in shell scripts so those would all have to be rewritten.

True, and a large number of the git commands that had previously been
written in shell have been moved to C; this has been a long-term
effort that has been going on for quite a while.  Not all of the shell
scripts have been moved, but enough so that you can have a basic GUI
interface to git.  There will probably always be certain operations
that can only be done via either a Unix, Linux, or Cygwin environment,
over time they will shrink to only include the much more esoteric
commands.  

Hg's Windows support is certainly superior today.  However, git's
Windows support is rapidly catching up, and it's highly likely that
within a year or so, it will be good enough for many projects'
purposes.

Regards,

						- Ted