Julia EvansMar 19, 2024

gonna do a short thread of git vs other version control systems polls just to get an overall vibe

poll 1: if you've used both hg and git, which do you prefer?

(no replies please though, i have already read 300 comments about git vs other version control systems today and i can't read more)

hg
21.3%
git
65.5%
depends
7.7%
other
5.4%
Poll ended at .
Show threadJulia EvansMar 19, 2024

poll 2: if you've used both svn and git, which do you prefer?

(no replies please, i have already read 300 comments about git vs other version control systems today and they were great but i can't read more)

svn
3.5%
git
91.8%
depends
3.2%
other
1.5%
Poll ended at .
Show threadJulia EvansMar 27, 2024

poll: is any of these your favourite version control system?

(please don't reply if your answer is "other”, i have some polls elsewhere in this thread about other systems)

bazaar
13.8%
fossil
33.9%
perforce
34.9%
cvs
17.4%
Poll ended at .
Show threadJulia EvansMar 27, 2024

poll: is any of these your favourite version control system?

(please don't reply if your answer is "other”, i have some polls elsewhere in this thread about other systems)

clearcase
12.9%
pijul
41.9%
darcs
35.5%
TFS/TFVC
9.7%
Poll ended at .
Show thread: j@fabrica:~/src;  
@b0rk I’m darcs at the moment, but I’m actively learning pijul and don’t hate it yet ;-)
Mar 27, 2024 at 7:02pmWeb
Show threadAlpha ChenMar 27, 2024
@josephholsten @b0rk I did use darcs once upon a time… IIRC there were significant perf issues, but I don’t recall whether I hit any of them myself or am just imagining that I did, since it was so long ago.
Show thread: j@fabrica:~/src;  Mar 27, 2024
@alpha @b0rk Long ago I tried converting history of larger projects into darcs and didn’t enjoy it. But I think of it like apache hive versus sqlite. Like git, hive can handle tremendously more data, but the semantics suffer. But if I can get away with it, I’ll be much happier with sqlite on a small dataset and darcs on a small repo.
Show threadShadSterlingMar 27, 2024
@alpha @josephholsten @b0rk I read about the theory behind darcs maybe a decade ago, and I really liked some of the ideas, but I’m not sure I ever actually used it. Now I’d want to use it with a host more or less like GitHub