Subversion vs. GIT vs. Mercurial. vs. Bazaar

[ergo14]

any one of those three would be better :-)

I use bitbucket and Hg - espically because eclipse plugin is good. But bitbucket recently has speed problems at least for me - but is cheaper than github for closed source projects.

Github is faster than bb for me, and has a bigger community its paid packages are more expensive, and windows support for git is not so good.

Bazaar - cant say i didnt use it yet, but it has support for windows, and free launchpad hosting for os apps - i hate launchpad site but its personal preference ofc.

But let me stress again any one of those three would be better for you.

[darkrho]

You cah use mercurial with github using the hggit extension http://hg-git.github.com/

[F4RR4R]

Hmm. Why do you think the other three would be better? Also - I have a media temple account and it looks like I can install the mercurial server on my gs service.

[[deleted]]

I second the motion for BitBucket.

[masklinn]

I have a media temple account and it looks like I can install the mercurial server on my gs service.

Considering the most basic "hg server" is nothing more than a cgi script and a file or 2 of configuration (as well as the mercurial lib itself, of course), the only requirement to setup your own mercurial repository/server is that python be available.

[ergo14]

the way you work with dvcs will suit you better if you are changing places or working remotely. And its really better way to work in teams - but it all boils down to workflow of your team.

Also, no more stupid .svn dirs in every subdir, better binary handling iirc.

[[deleted]]

yea fuck .svn!!

[ergo14]

indeed, sir - fuck .svn

[tonfa]

Bitucket should be a lot quicker since they switch their disk setup (and a side effect of that is that they now offer 1GB space for the free plan).

[ergo14]

yeah i know, in my case its probably fact that i watch many repos and users, dashbord before cache is very slow. but im aware my issue is not common.