Mercurial and Friends: How It Compares to VCS Options - Flourish! 2011
Channel: Flourish Conference
Date: 2013-11-11

Flourish! 2011
Augie Fackler is the author of many Mercurial extensions including hgsubversion, maintainer of hg-git, and contributor to Mercurial. He also started the Perian project and contributed to Adium. He has a Bachelor of Science degree in computational mathematics from Hillsdale College. Augie lives in the Chicago suburbs and works at Google's Chicago office where he maintains Mercurial-on-BigTable for the Project Hosting team. When not in front of a computer, he enjoys playing the french horn in community ensembles and working on his house.

Talk Description: A talk about the differences in internals/philosophy between hg and git, as well as some talk about what's appropriate for either. Augie will also speak about developing extensions for Mercurial.