Comments on: Mercurial for Windows

By: Ismael

Ismael — Sat, 10 Apr 2010 13:52:09 +0000

Mercurial has better tooling for Windows than Git. You should give it a try to VisualHG (VS add-in) and, probably, some online hosting services like bitbucket.org or codebasehq.com

PS: Though TFS2010 it’s a nice improvement over TFS2008, after a few months using both Git and Mercurial, i think distributed systems is the way to go.

By: Justin

Justin — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 17:49:50 +0000

Also check out Perforce (www.Perforce.com). For up to 2 users it’s free, and it’s got many benefits over SVN, which I completely agree, sucks.

By: Phil Wright

Phil Wright — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 02:10:47 +0000

I have to admit that the cost of using TFS put me off looking at it.

And I also got the impression it was a seriously big system aimed at the large enterprise environment. Something like Mercurial (or the others) can be used in a simple way as single developer and then you can become more sophisticated in its use if needs be.

By: vesuvius

vesuvius — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 14:17:23 +0000

I have also just about had anough of subversion and eagerly await Team Foundation Server Basic

By: Tom Spink

Tom Spink — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 12:13:15 +0000

Personally, I’m a heavy Git user. I absolutely love the freedom that comes with Git, and the workflows involved. It’s very difficult to do something wrong in Git.

Then again, I am a hardcore Linux Kernel developer – so my tastes may not be the same as other people’s.

By: Stefan Koell

Stefan Koell — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 07:24:18 +0000

Interesting move, Phil. I suspect you are an MSDN subscriber – and even if you don’t – you should take a look at Team Foundation Server 2010. It was very expensive in the past but now you get it for free for any professional MSDN subscription or higher and if you don’t have MSDN, it sells for 500$ (compared for multiple 1000$ in the past).

I’m also still using SVN and I totally agree with you, it sucks! I have the very same problems as you have using SVN and I cannot wait to install TFS 2010. Right now it’s RC but in a couple of weeks it will be final and I am looking forward for perfect Visual Studio integration.

One more thing mentionable is, that TFS 2010 doesn’t need any sharepoint and reporting stuff anymore and the express setup is literally “Next, Next, Finish”

Just a thought.

P.S. I’m not working for MS ;-)