Whygitisbetterthan.com, some advocacy from GitHub

[Elliot Murphy]

I while I use bzr and launchpad every single day, I really respect the
work done at GitHub, and just saw this site:

http://whygitisbetterthanx.com/

Git is listed as better than bzr in 4 areas:

- cheap local branching
- git is fast
- the staging area

I don't understand why git is supposed to be better than bzr at cheap
local branching, perhaps this is a case of not having a shared repo by
default causes a surface evaluation to make git look better here.

I haven't investigated the claim about speed, but the numbers are posted
and the benchmarking was done with publicly available branches of the
django project, so it would be interesting to get confirmation on these.

I disagree with the claim that the staging area makes git better than
bzr but I can see how it's a subjective thing - for me, shelve works
great to handle this. Of course, shelve is not in the core commands that
bzr ships...

I disagree that GitHub is the only social network for code because I use
launchpad the same way that GitHub is described here, but GitHub has
plenty of neat features that I drool over and would like to see in
launchpad (and launchpad has plenty of features that I would miss sorely
if I used GitHub exclusively). So I'd say this one should be a tie, and
it's totally fair for the GitHub folks to pitch GitHub as a reason to
choose git.

Anyway, interesting stuff to look at.
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Elliot Murphy | https://launchpad.net/~statik/