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

[Arne Babenhauserheide]

Am Donnerstag 08 Januar 2009 13:08:34 schrieb Isaac Jurado:
> Also, git and bzr have a more popular "leader figure".  It may seem
> irrelevant, but Linus and Mark can reach further in press, and their
> entourage tends to be more loyal.



> It is clear that this is more a matter of community than anything
> else.  So unless we manage to get Steve Jobs promoting Mercurial, for
> each Hg evangelist there will be two for bzr and four or more of git.
> Most of the people are scared of being part of a minority.  That's why
> minorities exist.

I doubt that, at least for Bazaar. 

When I created the hg-vs-bzr-vs-git code_swarm, the number of developers 
contributing to Bazaar looked far smaller than the number of developers 
contributing to Mercurial, and I don't hear many users promoting Bazaar. 

They may have a popular leader figure, but that figure stands for Ubuntu, not 
for Bazaar. 

So I must strongly counter this argument. I became enamoured with Mercurial, 
because it just worked for me, and it allowed me to do a great many things I 
couldn't do before - without stumbling over hidden traps. 

For example I do many small Python projects, and Mercurial allows me to have 
one general project structure which I just clone to start a new project. 

And if I forget to clone it, I can still just forcepull and merge it into my 
project later on. 

This is how I manage my setup.py, for instance. I wrote it once, and now I 
just clone it around. 

And that's one of the reasons why I talk to people about Mercurial. 

Best wishes, 
Arne
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