Mercurial, Git and a sprinkle of ZFS

Looks like there's some activity again on the project porting ZFS to Linux via FUSE. I was starting to get worried that it had been dropped. And there's still a chance Sun will commit to a GPL release of OpenSolaris.

I've been playing around with Mercurial a little, since Sun announced it would be used for OpenJDK (the Java source code). It seems similar to Git in many ways. The Python implementation is nice in terms of cross platform support. But I dislike the need to have a separate repository for each branch. It just seems so unnecessary after Git. The "hg serve" command is kinda nice. No need for a web server and CGI setup.

Despite being a Linux fan, I imagine Git could get a lot more mindshare with a Windows version. It'd be nice if somebody did a second implementation of Git (and maybe Cogito) in Python (or Ruby). You'd think Windows users would want to share in a tool that's this useful.