2718.us blog » version control system http://2718.us/blog Miscellaneous Technological Geekery Tue, 18 May 2010 02:42:55 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 Subversions is (on its way) Out, Mercurial is In http://2718.us/blog/2010/03/20/subversions-is-on-its-way-out-mercurial-is-in/ http://2718.us/blog/2010/03/20/subversions-is-on-its-way-out-mercurial-is-in/#comments Sat, 20 Mar 2010 14:33:24 +0000 2718.us http://2718.us/blog/?p=232 I have very happily been using Subversion since 2008.  I was quite clearly late to the version control system (VCS) party and I wish I’d known about VCS much earlier.  About 5-6 months ago, I finally gave in and tried Mercurial and hated it.  While I could kind of get my head around why I should like a distributed VCS (DVCS), I just couldn’t make the paradigm work for me.  I was pretty sure that with all the people talking about how great DVCS was, I must be doing something wrong, but that didn’t stop me from putting Mercurial back on the shelf.

A little over a month ago, I went back and played with Mercurial some more, and it just clicked.  I think it had something to do with reading the Mercurial guide, but I couldn’t really put my finger on it.  That is, until a few days ago, when I read Distributed Version Control is here to stay, baby.  Joel’s explanation of his transition to DVCS really hit on the shift in thinking that took place for me in moving to Mercurial.  Plus, it has one of the best lines I’ve ever read in a blog post:

If you are using Subversion, stop it. Just stop. Subversion = Leeches. Mercurial and Git = Antibiotics. We have better technology now.

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