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The source code of Devproof Portal is now available on Github. Some weeks ago I decided to move the source code to a distributed revision control system. There were to candidates: Git and Mercurial.  I decided in favour of Git, because I only know people who are using Git. It seems to be more popular than Mercurial (see Google Trends and compare Github with BitBucket). Furthermore Git is faster and more flexible.

Please visit Devproof on Github

# Create a clone from Github
git clone git://github.com/devproof/portal.git devproof

If you like, you can fork the project.

For the hardcore SVN users, you can still use it:

# Checkout from SVN
svn checkout https://svn.github.com/devproof/portal/ devproof

The source code from Google Code SVN has been removed, but the Google Code Project Page (incl. Bug Tracker, Downloads etc.) is still active!

Some colleagues of mine gave me a short briefing on Git and so I read a lot about it. In the last few days I tried Bazaar and Mercurial too. Bazaar is too slow and hasn't got a integrated branch switching, that means each folder is a branch.

Mercurial and Git are nearly equal in performance and features, but I think Mercurial has a better Windows support and better tools like HGeclipse. On the other side I suppose Git has the bigger community (if you compare Github and Bitbucket).

What would you prefer?