Last week, Scott James Remnant posted a series of “Git Sucks” on his blog, starting with this one here, with follow up entries hereand here. His problem? To quote Scott, “I want to put a branch I have somewhere so somebody else can get it. That’s the whole point of distributed revision-control, collaboration.” He thought this was a “mind-numbingly trivial” operation, and was frustrated when it wasn’t a one-line command in git.

John Goerzen recently posted about Git, Mercurial and Bzr that I found interesting, especially since I used to be in the hg camp, but have been gradually using git more and more, even to the point making minor improvements to the git documentation and writing the git mergetool, since being able to automatically fire up a graphical merge tool was one of the features which I missed from hg. So while I haven’t yet converted the primary SCM repository for e2fsprogs to use git (yet), I’ve reached an opposite concolusion from John, and yet, I can’t really argue with his observations.