Tag Archives: mercurial

Mercurial Integration

I’ve mentioned in a previous post about Mercurial integrations being fewer but I thought I’d actually put together a list of the decent ones… NetBeans – Its managed using Mercurial so you’d expect it to have integrated support for it.  Its also the best Java IDE in the world.  So say I. TortoiseHg – Ah [...]

Mercurial vs Git

Personally I’m more a fan of Mercurial with the main reason being: Portability. As far as I know Git still has problems handling Windows which is something Mercurial has never had to worry about.  So I can switch between multiple different environments without worrying about my SCM falling down. Another reason is the name and [...]

…but Mercurial is even better

I posted the other week about how great Git is – It took a while for me to get the point.  I’m generally the last to figure this stuff out so forgive me if I’m preaching to the converted.  For anyone still unconvinced this video presentation by Linus about Git helped a lot.  It was [...]

Git and Mercurial Hosting

With all the clammering for free SVN hosting at the moment its easy to forget there are other services available.  I wanted to try out Mercurial and Git since they recently became increasingly popular and with Rails switching to Git it just begged to be given a try. Well here’s a few free source hosting [...]