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Mercurial Vs Git

• the Hg-Git mercurial plugin
  

• http://martinfowler.com/bliki/VersionControlTools.html
  
  
• http://gitvsmercurial.com/
  
  
• http://importantshock.wordpress.com/2008/08/07/git-vs-mercurial/
  • Git is MacGyver?
  • Mercurial is James Bond
    
  
  
• http://geekfromcairo.wordpress.com/2009/09/20/git-vs-mercurial/
  • Mercurial maybe a more intuitive and user friendly VCS, but I really miss the fine-grained control I used to get from Git, even if that means occasionally shooting yourself in the foot at times.
    
  
  
• http://metaljoe.wordpress.com/2010/02/28/why-i-picked-mercurial/
  • Mercurial is more elegant and less complex than Git
    
  
  
• http://www.rockstarprogrammer.org/post/2008/apr/06/differences-between-mercurial-and-git/
• http://nubyonrails.com/articles/five-features-from-mercurial-that-would-make-git-suck-less
• http://stackoverflow.com/questions/35837/what-is-the-difference-between-mercurial-and-git
• http://rg03.wordpress.com/2009/04/07/mercurial-vs-git/
  
  
• http://code.google.com/p/support/wiki/DVCSAnalysis
  
  
• http://www.versioncontrolblog.com/comparison/Git/Mercurial/Subversion/index.html
• http://www.diffen.com/difference/Git_(software)_vs_Mercurial_(software)
  
  
• http://www.mobilebits.de/Blog/post/2009/11/01/Trying-out-Mercurial-with-VisualHG.aspx
  • VisualStudio-integration of Git sucks
    
  
  
• http://blog.alexyakunin.com/2009/09/selecting-vcs-for-do4-git-versus.html
  • If you like to use tools developed by masochists (written in C!) for masochists (~ 50 tools!), Git is your choice.

Pros, Cons, and some Facts.

• Mercurial has problems with large binary files
  • http://martinfowler.com/bliki/VersionControlTools.html
  • Mercurial generally makes no assumptions about file contents. Thus, most things in Mercurial work fine with any type of file.
    • http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/BinaryFiles
  • Secondly, our storage format currently uses signed 32-bit values for recording file sizes. That gives us a hard limit of 2GiB.
    • http://old.nabble.com/Large-binary-files-td19905554.html
  
  
• Git is not well supported for Windows. Mercurial is natively supported.
  
• Mercurial is elegant. -> James Bond [1]
  
• Mercurials internalt structures are less mutable (more secure?) [2]
• Mercurials internal structures are more complex.
  
• just a fact: Git infers renames (different filename, same content) [3]
  
• Git uses snapshots, Mercurial's history is based on changesets
  
• Mercurials administrative files take less space (changeset-oriented vs. Git's snapshot-orientation).
  
• Mercurial's branches are infered - not explicit.
  • http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/BookmarksExtension