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Git now has the git-annex extension for large files; I use it myself for all my data. http://git-annex.branchable.com/
It's not the same thing. That only stores the latest revision. You can't easily go back in history and check out earlier revisions of the large files. You can in hg.
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One of the reasons I chose GNU Emacs over XEmacs was a feeling that GNU Emacs will be maintained, even advanced, for as long as RMS has the strength to type. It's his baby. (There were other reasons, the big one being momentum. XEmacs didn't run on the platform I was on for a long time, so it would have been a switch.)
RMS has RSI, so he doesn't type, he dictates. Oh, shit -- that didn't come out the way I meant it to. ;(
>git won the mindshare war. I regret this - I would have preferred Mercurial, but it too is not looking real healthy these days I confess that my perception of Mercurial is the diametric opposite of the author's. Recently I believe I have seen a modest resurgence of interest in Hg and increased uptake. Am I just seeing this through some peculiar VCS-warped glasses? I believe that much of the popularity of git stems f…
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Yep, I don't understand the author's assertions about Mercurial either. Mercurial remains a better choice for a few use cases where git simply falls flat. Among game developers, in particular, because of their need to have revision control for large assets, Mercurial seems to be more popular than git due to the large files extension. And realistically, perforce or other solutions appear to be even more popular among…
Among game developers, in particular, because of their need to have revision control for large assets, Mercurial seems to be more popular than git due to the large files extension. Most game devs -- I'd say even most devs in grown-up, professional shops -- use p4.
>git won the mindshare war. I regret this - I would have preferred Mercurial, but it too is not looking real healthy these days I confess that my perception of Mercurial is the diametric opposite of the author's. Recently I believe I have seen a modest resurgence of interest in Hg and increased uptake. Am I just seeing this through some peculiar VCS-warped glasses? I believe that much of the popularity of git stems f…
As far as I can tell, Mercurial is being actively developed (i.e., updates being pushed out on a roughly monthly basis), and it's also actively being used. It isn't used as much in the open source community (probably the GitHub effect), but that doesn't mean it's "not looking real healthy" (anymore than OS X does compared to Windows). Bazaar is a different story. Technically speaking, Bazaar isn't going away anytime…