[Coco] Changes for ToolShed and NitrOS-9 Projects

[David Roper]

My two cents - Git is now what Subversion and CVS once were - kings of the
hill due to proliferation (and not always because of feature-set)

The most common isn't always the best or the most feature-filled - just
look at Windows (had to get my Linux activism stab in there somewhere!)

- D.

On 3 February 2012 09:50, Jeff Teunissen <deek at d2dc.net> wrote:

> My only complaint is that Mercurial makes it really hard to work with
> other tools like git. From the other direction it's easy, Hg can work
> with git repositories transparently using the "convert" extension, but
> the opposite is not true -- you can't use git to work with a Hg repo
> transparently. Part of this is due to git's popularity advantage (it's
> important for Hg developers to be able to use git repos as natively as
> possible), but it's also because git doesn't record the name of the
> head a commit was committed to, which the Hg developers thought was
> important or something.
>
> Basically, the only way these days to allow everyone to use whatever
> they like is to use git on the "central" repositories and let everyone
> use whatever they like, because all the other tools can work with it.
>
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