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I up voted you because I think it's a shame that people down vote for having a strange point of view. I'm assuming you aren't trolling :-) Having said that, I

I up voted you because I think it's a shame that people down vote for having a strange point of view. I'm assuming you aren't trolling :-) Having said that, I completely disagree ;-) I've used RCS, CVS, Source Safe, Perforce, bzr, subversion and git professionally as a programmer (and that's not including home grown VCS systems that nobody has heard of). I like git, but it's hardly going to be the ultimate VCS ever in the history of the universe. I remember using RCS and switching to CVS. You have no idea how happy I was! It was like night and day. When I eventually started using distributed VCS systems I had that same feeling. We need a variety of systems where people are pushing the boundaries in order to get to the next level. I don't think Mercurial is the next level, but there are some really good ideas in it. Sticking to a single implementation will hold our whole industry back. To be fair, learning a new VCS takes as much getting used to as changing the colour of your sneakers compared to all the other stuff you have to learn in your career. If you hold on too much to a small little island of technology, you could find that the rest of the world passes you by pretty quickly (Speaking as a fairly old guy, a lot of my former colleagues are in that predicament right now -- it's not fun).

nailer 8y ago
I've also been around long enough RCS provided revision control CVS provided concurrent checkouts by different users Subversion allowed moves and renames and atomic commits git is distributed. Each one of those was so much better than the previous one that it replaced the previous one, despite that previous one being ubiquitous. Mercurial might be 5% or 20% better than git, but it doesn't matter. It's not 300% better. Mercurial won't take over after git, in the same way KDE won't take over after Windows. The next thing has to be the iPhone - the thing that changes the paradigm completely.
- Walkman 8y ago
  Yes, Exactly! mercurial is not THAT MUCH better, so it doesn't worth spreading. If it contain good ideas, we should try to incorporate some into Git, instead of making every tool more complex.
  - alwillis 8y ago
    Yes, Exactly! mercurial is not THAT MUCH better, so it doesn't worth spreading. But it is better; just how much depends on the situation. If you were the guy who blew away a bunch of Jenkins repos using a “feature” of Git, you might feel differently--https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6713742 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6713742
    - nailer 8y ago
      You missed the point of the parent and the grandparent, which both discuss why mercurial being better does not matter.

nailer 8y ago

I've also been around long enough RCS provided revision control CVS provided concurrent checkouts by different users Subversion allowed moves and renames and atomic commits git is distributed. Each one of those was so much better than the previous one that it replaced the previous one, despite that previous one being ubiquitous. Mercurial might be 5% or 20% better than git, but it doesn't matter. It's not 300% better. Mercurial won't take over after git, in the same way KDE won't take over after Windows. The next thing has to be the iPhone - the thing that changes the paradigm completely.

Walkman 8y ago
Yes, Exactly! mercurial is not THAT MUCH better, so it doesn't worth spreading. If it contain good ideas, we should try to incorporate some into Git, instead of making every tool more complex.
- alwillis 8y ago
  Yes, Exactly! mercurial is not THAT MUCH better, so it doesn't worth spreading. But it is better; just how much depends on the situation. If you were the guy who blew away a bunch of Jenkins repos using a “feature” of Git, you might feel differently--https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6713742 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6713742
  - nailer 8y ago
    You missed the point of the parent and the grandparent, which both discuss why mercurial being better does not matter.