Re: Getting libHSPlasma and PlasmaShop
Posted: Tue Apr 13, 2010 2:09 am
I'm simply used to git, I even use it locally for projects that don't have a public code repository - and for all SVN projects I contribute to (most notably Alcugs). Admittedly it took me some weeks to get used to it, but boy it IS simple and powerful, just like a unix tool has to be. So when I got the basic ideas, and how they simply work, I was really stunned. Linus did an amazing job there. So now I learned how to do branches, rebase, bisect and whatnot (I even dealt with remotes at one point, which was just great - it was so simple to get a patch from one local repository to another, amazing), and it all works consistently and predictable. I am sure I could do the same in Mercurial, but I would have to learn it again. It's like the endless flamewar about the best programming language (which is C++, of course) - it's all a matter of taste and what you are used to.
The same applies here, too. I also read that Mercurial's wiki is quite well-organized, so it should be feasible. The documentation shipped with the app was not as helpful as the one from git, though.Granted, the patches I've written for libHSPlasma have been fairly small so far, and haven't really required the power that git gives me. It's entirely possible Mercurial won't irritate me too badly.