[Gllug] Mercurial or Subversion for single user?

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Progga wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 12:13:51AM +0000, gvim wrote:
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>> So, what would be the best option. I'm inclined to go with Mercurial at this stage.
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> I use both and won't say that hg is way more useful than svn.  People who do
> lots of merging really like hg, but then I don't do lots of merging :-)
>
> If you do want to go for hg at the end then check Joel Spolsky's hg tutorial at
> http://hginit.com
>
>
>   

SVN is fine for a single user as long as you don't want to be branching
and merging a lot. Linus' big complaint is how badly it scales and
that's not a factor for you. The thing it had that the others didn't a
couple of years back was good integration with Eclipse but maybe that
has changed now too.

Roger.
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