Re: Mercurial vs. git

[Michal Suchanek]

2009/11/10  <olafBuddenhagen@gmx.net>:
> Hi,
>
> On Mon, Nov 09, 2009 at 10:47:26AM +0100, Arne Babenhauserheide wrote:
>> Am Donnerstag, 5. November 2009 13:56:09 schrieb
>> olafBuddenhagen@gmx.net:
>
>> > My opinion is that there is no "one size fits all" here.
>>
>> My opinion is that there's quite a neat sweet spot between the two
>> extremes -
>
> I don't believe this. There is a good reason why for most tasks, there
> are both "simple" programs for casual users and complex programs for
> "professionals". I don't see why revision control would be different.
>

Well, there are programs that are adaptable and programs that are not.

If you took a professional photo editor and wanted to make a simple
photo editor you would have to rework the whole gui.

However, if you take git and add some scripts that hide some of git
features you can offer a simpler interface to the same powerful
system.

Thanks

Michal