Thread: software regression

  1. 07-14-2009 #16
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    But Git is not an easy tool to learn. I struggled hard to learn how to perform the simplest tasks. An this type of commitment to a VCS is really something I don't want for me. Especially when I can go by with much easier alternatives without significant loss of features. These tools are to me necessary evils and the least they get in my way, the better. One of the reasons I enjoy so much SVN and especially Bazaar.
    Hmm... that's pretty interesting. I was considering moving from SVN to GIT for my hobby projects, but now I may have to reconsider. Has anyone here used GIT for personal projects, and liked it?
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    I've used it for the first six weeks of a port. I'll never use it again.

    At this point I think the only ones I've not used is Darcs and Perforce. (I've not used any commercial offering that doesn't have a free variant.)

    I'd recommend either Mercurial or Bazaar. I favor Mercurial; it only took me about three hours of use to fall in love with it.

    I'd just as soon track changes myself than go back to CVS.

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    What I hate most about Git is that there's no GUI.
    Well, there's an Eclipse plugin, but it doesn't work and always causes your Git repo to get totally messed up, so I stopped trying to use it.
    Today I also found out that viewing a Git repo as a Java Project in Eclipse is a very bad idea, since it also messes up all your files.
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  4. 07-15-2009 #19
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    I use git for my personal projects - at least those that I don't expect to work on in Windows, since the Windows port of git is still not nice.

    Usage took a little bit of getting used to, but now I like it very much. I prefer it over svn (which is also nice) and mercurial (which is pretty much the same as git, but with IMO even less intuitive commands), the other VCSs I use regularly. And I infinitely prefer any of them over CVS, which I still have to use at work.
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    If you want to pay for one then Perforce is very good but has a few annoying flaws. Perforce clients like P4Win and P4V are very nice with P4V being the better of the two. Branching in Perforce is a snap and integration, while not the most enjoyable task, is quite easy from a Perforce perspective. I use Perforce daily and it is my best friend at times and at other times my worst enemy.

    In the free realm, Tortoise SVN is good but I detest all the hidden folders and files it must put on your drive to work correctly.
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