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j-kidd on Aug 1, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: Understanding the Git Workflow

Try http://hginit.com for a fantastic introduction to Mercurial for people familiar with SVN (or not).

Git was designed to suit kernel development (as shown in the article). For us simple-minded mortals who like SVN, it is much easier to migrate to Mercurial.

jebblue on Aug 1, 2011 [–]

Good article, well written. If we are to start using distributed version control then I guess it might as well be git since it seems to have the most traction in the press.

koenigdavidmj on Aug 1, 2011 | [–]

http://hg-git.github.com/

That is a plugin for Mercurial, written by the Github people, to support targeting git repositories.

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