Liuw's Thinkpad

I use Git and Mercurial. Take a note on some of my configurations.

Git is configured via git(1) command. Configurations eventually go into .gitconfig, which can be edited by hand.

# note "--global" means per user
# system wide setting is set with "--system"
# if cd into project dir and without "--global", settings will be in project scope
$ git config --global user.name 'Wei Liu'
$ git config --global user.email liuw@liuw.name

# if use windows, better set
$ git config --global core.autocrlf true
$ git config --global core.safecrlf true

Mercurial is configured via ~/.hgrc or project specified .hgrc.

[ui]
username = Wei Liu <liuw@liuw.name>

As far as I can see, Git is more powerful while Mercurial is easier to use. There’s still more to learn about DVCS. Some interesting stuffs:

http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0374/

This article provides several usage scenarios on several VCS, quite useful to green hand like me.

http://code.google.com/p/support/wiki/DVCSAnalysis

Google’s analysis of Git and Mercurial. But I got the sense that the reviewer’s biased towards Mercurial. Anyway, Google is a Python company.

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