Companies in SA that use Distributed Version Control?

[skimread]

Anyone know any companies in South Africa using Distributed Version Control yet (Git /Mercurial) ?

I want to move over from subversion to Distributed Version Control and apart from the difference need to provide my boss with some company names/software houses who also use it in SA so I can get the go ahead.

 

[dequadin]

Anyone know any companies in South Africa using Distributed Version Control yet (Git /Mercurial) ?

I want to move over from subversion to Distributed Version Control and apart from the difference need to provide my boss with some company names/software houses who also use it in SA so I can get the go ahead.

We are planning to move from SVN to Mercurial after our current project goes live. In reality I'll probably do the migration in December when things are a bit more quiet.

Sorry not giving the company name, but we are a multinational.

 

[skimread]

We are planning to move from SVN to Mercurial after our current project goes live. In reality I'll probably do the migration in December when things are a bit more quiet.

Sorry not giving the company name, but we are a multinational.

Thanks. Reasons to justify the move?

 

[dequadin]

Thanks. Reasons to justify the move?

The main reason is the improved merging capabilities.

 

[sn3rd]

The main reason is the improved merging capabilities.

Agree with this.

However, I found that mercurial starts to bomb when the noobs start using it... And unless things have changed, hosting multiple projects under a single repository isn't supported without some trickery (due to the very nature of mercurial).

 

[bullzeye.za]

Take a look at Git-Flow

http://nvie.com/posts/a-successful-git-branching-model/

Awesome extension of git that makes life really easy

 

[naeem.ally]

We a really small company but use git, all our repos are linked to github.
Please bear in mind that git works brilliantly in a *nix environment but the performance is not as great in a windows environment purely because of the way the file system works.
I still think this isn't sufficient reasons for not using git as git makes life really easy when doing merges.