Ok, You Guys Talked Me Into It

I'm trying git now.

Also, hey, if any of you Mac guys want to help out, I've checked in a version of sixty second shooter into http://sixtysecondshootertest.appspot.com that lets you enable and disable a variety of different options. Are any of them responsible for the bad framerate - let me know.

You need to have Native Client enabled in about:flags to run it.

Comments

[Jeff Ward]

I didn't comment, but if you're running windows primarily, I always recommend hg over git. Especially hg 2.0 at this point. The introduction of it's extensions to work with large files is a win IMO, and it just plays way nicer with windows.

Git is for sure the "better" system, but hg is WAY cleaner and nicer.

[Timothy Fitz]

Hey, just tried it on my Macbok Pro, if I disable "browser text" the game runs really smoothly.

Is the "iXX" the framerate? If so it's pegged at 59/60, but interestingly it says 59/60 even if I do have the browser text enabled.

[Nicholas Novitski]

Yeah, I'm a big ol' Git partisan, but I hear Mercurial does work more easily on non-unixes. And it's still a dvcs, which is the important part.

[kert]

Before you get too far down the git path, you may try the same thing designed for humans.

See hginit.com. Far easier transition.

[Jamie Fristrom]

Ok, Mercurial it is. I've inited, added, and committed (and I threw in the nacl_sdk directory as well so that won't give me problems anymore) ...

On the Mac front, I'm certain I disabled the browser text and saw only a marginal improvement ... it went from 1 fps to 2 ...

[greggman]

meh, use git, not mercurial, even on Windows. I used mercurial for 9 months first, loved it. Switched to git. Loved it more. There's a steeper learning curve with git but it's better than hg.

When you decide to start git, read at least the first chapter of Pro Git(http://progit.org/book/) as it will explain some major difference between git and other VCS like git's stage for example.