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Mercurial had a more familiar, but much worse interface than git. More familiar because it was essentially subversions interface made suitable for a dvcs. Wor
by xiaomai 11y ago
Mercurial had a more familiar, but much worse interface than git.
More familiar because it was essentially subversions interface made suitable for a dvcs.
Worse for lacking (or requiring plugins for) features like the index, commit amending, rebasing, lightweight branches, etc.
- jordigh 11y agoGit didn't have any of those things either except "lightweight branches". It wasn't until 2006 or so that git grew a reasonable commit command. Before then, people relied on tools such as cogito in order to get work done.
- xolve 11y agoAlso, Linux kernel uses git! So it has a traction. Once people get used to a tool they stick to it.