Both git and mercurial (and darcs for that matter) are huge improvements over centralized SCMs like SVN. You could argue for days which one to use, and won't get any conclusive results.

I happen to prefer git, and I know a lot of other Perl people do. It wasn't much of a conscious decision, i just contributed to a few projects that used git, and thus learned it and eventually liked it. Later I learned a bit of hg too, and also liked it, though not enough to switch.

The perl 5 core is held in a git repo, as well as all serious Perl 6 compilers and nearly all of the Perl 6 modules.

I also get the impression that many Perl 5 modules use git (and I know it from a few big ones, like DBIx::Class, Moose and Mojolicious), many more than Mercurial.

As for the websites, it's been ages since I used bitbucket, and back then it didn't support any pull requests, so any opinion I could offer would probably be too out of date to take seriously.

Perl 6 - second systems done right

In reply to Re: Thoughts on Git, Mercurial, Github, and Bitbucket. by moritz
in thread Thoughts on Git, Mercurial, Github, and Bitbucket. by bms

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