[Python-Dev] PEP 481 - Migrate Some Supporting Repositories to Git and Github (original) (raw)

Terry Reedy tjreedy at udel.edu
Mon Dec 1 04:48:04 CET 2014

On 11/30/2014 8:19 PM, Pierre-Yves David wrote:

Mercurial have robust Windows support for a long time. This support is native (not using cygwin) and handle properly all kind of strange corner case. We have large scale ecosystem (http://unity3d.com/) using Mercurial on windows.

We also have full featured GUI client http://tortoisehg.bitbucket.org/.

Tortoisehg comes with Hg Workbench, which I use for everything I can. The only thing I do not use it for is file (versus repository/changeset) commands, like file annotation. I do that with right click in Windows Explorer. In my current physical state, having to do everything at a Windows command prompt would be more onerous.

There exists a TortoiseGit, but it lacks the unifying Workbench GUI. There exists at least one 3rd party workbench that purports to work with both hg and git. I have not looked at it yet.

It is actively developed by people who stay in touch with the Mercurial upstream so new feature tend to land in the GUI really fast.

-- Terry Jan Reedy

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