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Yep, Mercurial's the one. It's a shame that it lost the war, they actually seemed to care about providing a good experience to their users. There are, of course
by ewjordan 10y ago
Yep, Mercurial's the one. It's a shame that it lost the war, they actually seemed to care about providing a good experience to their users. There are, of course, a few technical differences between it and git, but I personally never felt like they were troublesome enough to make up for the vast difference in usability.
- marcinkuzminski 10y agoI think Mercurial hasn't lost it yet. I speak as a creator of Mercurial Source Code management system (RhodeCode) We see that a lot of companies(our clients/users) adopting Mercurial, you just don't hear about it. Often those are companies with employees that don't tweet or post to HN ;) RhodeCode is used also in around 60 universities, and we learned that in a lot of them they teach Mercurial as well as Git. For a large company it's actually much cheaper to adapt Mercurial as they new DVCS because of learning curve. I hope companies like Facebook and Mozilla will make soon Mercurial very very fast. There's constant work on it coming from those companies to improve it.
- RJIb8RBYxzAMX9u 10y agoI don't think hg is going anywhere, if CVS is still alive and kicking in 2016, and especially since Facebook's using it. However, IMO hg lost when even python switched to git.