Scott Chacon - Scott Chacon on the Webs

So I basically stopped blogging this year, more or less since I started working for GitHub. I’ve been busy, what can I say? I wrote a technical book through APress publishing called Pro Git, I’ve traveled all over the world speaking at dozens of conferences...

It’s been a while since I made a big blogging change - I’ve been on Wordpress for a pretty long time now and have generally liked it, but the theme wasn’t so hot and the general zeitgiest of my postings have veered much more into programming than politics...

At the end of March, I’m going to be traveling to Europe for Scotland on Rails to do a Git talk (also likely a talk at the University of Edinburgh, if you’re there).
While there, I thought I would do a more in-depth training session in London for all our friends toiling in SVN heck or otherwise wanting to sharpen their Git-Fu. My friends at Codebase have helped me rent a space, catering and all that so we can have...

It seems that a rather popular theme when reading about distributed SCMs on a blog post is that someone says that they hate or love Git, where the hate is generally that it's hard to learn, unintuitive, etc. Then, generally without exception, a mercurial...