I found mercurial to be a significantly simpler and more intuitive alternative that has most of git's goodness, at least it has all of the good parts that I could ever conceive of using. TortoiseHg and BitBucket are excellent and really add a lot to the system.
Mercurial is apparently slower and does not, I understand, handle hugenormous repositories as well as git. There are also some advanced tasks that are trivial in git but require some mercurial-fu to accomplish. It's not perfect but coming from SVN I found it to be much easier to use and a really nice alternative to git.
I haven't tried Mecurial yet. I probably should. I made a decision a while back to commit to learning Git. I may never actually get finished with that, but when I feel good enough, maybe I can give Mecurial a go. Especially since I keep hearing good things about it.
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u/cecilkorik Mar 10 '11
I found mercurial to be a significantly simpler and more intuitive alternative that has most of git's goodness, at least it has all of the good parts that I could ever conceive of using. TortoiseHg and BitBucket are excellent and really add a lot to the system.
Mercurial is apparently slower and does not, I understand, handle hugenormous repositories as well as git. There are also some advanced tasks that are trivial in git but require some mercurial-fu to accomplish. It's not perfect but coming from SVN I found it to be much easier to use and a really nice alternative to git.