Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by krmmalik 4843 days ago
Is having to make a binary choice between Git or Mercurial, really that big a deal? I just assumed that teams would make a consensual decision, stick to one and get on with it. Seems like a great feat of engineering, but is it that wide a problem? (genuine question).
1 comments
caw 4842 days ago
Welcome to corporate.

For business group A, I use RCS. For business group B, I use SVN. For my own personal stuff I use git.

No joke.

Mercurial, Perforce, Clearcase are also in use depending who you ask. I'm sure we have some CVS still in use somewhere, and I think Bazaar may be installed, though I don't know who uses it. Basically if it exists, we have it installed, and someone might be using it, somewhere among the order of 100k employees worldwide.

link
krmmalik 4842 days ago
That would explain my naivete on the matter. I don't deal with corporate much at all. I guess it makes sense for the corporate environment in that case then.

Thanks for clearing it up.

link