{"id":2446,"date":"2010-05-17T16:22:54","date_gmt":"2010-05-17T20:22:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=2446"},"modified":"2010-05-17T16:22:56","modified_gmt":"2010-05-17T20:22:56","slug":"why-i-switched-to-git-from-mercurial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2010\/05\/17\/why-i-switched-to-git-from-mercurial\/","title":{"rendered":"Why I Switched to Git From Mercurial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.extracheese.org\/2010\/05\/why-i-switched-to-git-from-mercurial.html\">Gary Bernhardt<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/blog.extracheese.org\/2010\/05\/why-i-switched-to-git-from-mercurial.html\"><p>Mercurial&rsquo;s repository model is clunky and stays hidden in the background (this is a bad thing; don&rsquo;t let anyone tell you otherwise). If you have a Mercurial repository whose size is dominated by a single, 20 MB directory, and you then rename that directory, your repository just doubled to 40 MB. This has limited my ability to manage real-life Mercurial repositories. Git&rsquo;s repository model is so good that I only hesitate slightly when calling it perfect.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gary Bernhardt: Mercurial&rsquo;s repository model is clunky and stays hidden in the background (this is a bad thing; don&rsquo;t let anyone tell you otherwise). If you have a Mercurial repository whose size is dominated by a single, 20 MB directory, and you then rename that directory, your repository just doubled to 40 MB. This has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2446","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2446"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2446\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2447,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2446\/revisions\/2447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}