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Git is Wesley Snipes. Mercurial is Denzel Washington

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Let me save you 30 seconds.

Denzel Washington is a great actor. Other than that, he lives a pretty normal life. What's interesting about that?

In contrast, Wesley Snipes gives the world lots of things to write about. Tax evasion. Conviction for reckless driving. Martial arts.

People admire Denzel Washington. But Wesley Snipes is simply more interesting.

Your summary [this article] is recklessly subjective but +1 for making me chuckle. Giving the tabloids something to write about versus giving a film critic something to write about is my central concern with this logic.

Comparing how an actor works [how a version control application works] versus how an actor lives [what else does a version control application do bedsides work] doesn't really add up in my mind.

NOTE: These statements were made prior to reading the article

An interesting analogy, but I'd be happier if it were accompanied with some examples. Hg got everything right? Cool. Like what?

I agree. The only thing he says about Mercurial is "I've used it some, and found it to be incredibly pleasant." That doesn't tell me anything. This could potentially be quite interesting to someone like me who has used a DVCS, Git in my case, only a handful of times, but instead it ends up as anecdotal.

Talk about a link bait title.

I really don't see why this is getting up voted.

Well, the title is technically copy and pasted from the post and you could argue the same about most TechCruch and CodingHorror stuff...

I am curious, however. I have a few opinions about things that I don't like in git myself (and the post links to a bunch of the author's own opinions about git), but I'm not familiar with hg.

Can people who are familiar with it enlighten me as to what makes it good (or what about Mercurial is not mildly annoying compared to other vcs's)?

I didn't realize distributed VCS's were black.

You wouldn't say anything if they were white.

SVN is Morgan Freeman as in 'old and boring'?

What about CVS and the best tools of all: ClearCase and SourceSafe? :-)

You're kidding, right? SourceSafe is terrible.

":-)"

Since we're on the internet, I believe it is appropriate to compare CVS to Hitler.

At least it made the trains run on time.

That was Mussolin-- aw, forget it.

CVS is MLK?

ClearCase is Robert Mugabe http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Mugabe

SourceSafe is Charles Taylor http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Taylor_(Liberia)

Making your work interesting instead of your personal troubles wins.

CVS is Jeremy Irons and darcs is Michael Caine.

I can do this crap all day.

CVS is Robert Downey, Jr. before he kicked the drugs. Subversion is Robert Downey, Jr. sober.

DVCSes are networks of pirate utopias, non-D VCSes are the United Nations.

CVS is Hannibal Lector, svk is Buffalo Bill.

You're right, it's fun, easy, and a complete waste of time.

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