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Sr.ht becomes Sourcehut

289 points by Boulth 8y ago

ruffrey 8y ago
Good choice. It's memorable. I signed up as a paid user when it was last on hacker news. Got an email invoice. Then for the life of me could not remember what the service was called. Finally gave up trying to use it.
- deleted 8y ago
  [deleted]
- weinzierl 8y ago
  For me it's the opposite. Can't forget sir hat, too pictorial to forget. sourcehut on the other hand is one of too many source somethings. It's more prefessional for sure and if it is the official name we can still keep sir hat as a nickname I guess.
kardos 8y ago
Your form for registering is not using TLS: action="http://meta.sr.ht.local/register"
- kardos 8y ago
  Looks OK if you use the form at https://meta.sr.ht/register https://meta.sr.ht/register
- ddevault 8y ago
  Fixed, should be deployed momentarily. Thanks!
  - ATsch 8y ago
    I hope you're using the Upgrade-Insecure-Requests CSP setting!
  - _eht 8y ago
    On your /tutorials/set-up-account-and-git.md you really should not encourage default ssh-keygen. Please update with either `ssh-keygen -t ed25519 -a 100` or `ssh-keygen -t rsa -b 4096 -o -a 100` or
    - Sir_Cmpwn 8y ago
      I think your case is better made to openssl than to me.
meddlepal 8y ago
I love the minimalist info-dense UI. Thank you for avoiding modern UI trends.
- kowdermeister 8y ago
  Minimalism is a modern UI trend :)
  - meddlepal 8y ago
    If by minimalism you mean flat design I agree, but it's usually not information dense.
    - thekelvinliu 8y ago
      "brutalism"
      - meddlepal 8y ago
        As an architecture enthusiast and a fan of brutalism I am having trouble connecting this word with UI. This style of UI reminds me of something different... a late 80's/early 90's simplicity. Yet it's still stylish. I am hesitant to call it retroism because it will cheapen the movement to do that. It's refreshing and unique.
aboutruby 8y ago
Much better, nice!
antiquitie 8y ago
Cool to see another big flask project. I'd love to see a lighter and snappier alternative to gitlab.
- StavrosK 8y ago
  Like Gitea?
niftich 8y ago
As of posting, the info on this site is very lean, but going forward sourcehut seems to be the name for the software suite of the service 'sr.ht'. The linkage is implied by the quote on the site that "sr.ht is a hosted instance of sourcehut provided for your convenience". The impetus behind the branding clarification seems to be this HN thread [1]. For more history, see the the debut announcement [2] and its corresponding HN thread [3]. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18929709#18930413 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18929709#18930413 [2] https://drewdevault.com/2018/11/15/sr.ht-general-availability.html https://drewdevault.com/2018/11/15/sr.ht-general-availabilit... [3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18458908 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18458908
- vertex-four 8y ago
  Seems to be otherwise - https://meta.sr.ht https://meta.sr.ht is now branded as "sourcehut". I'm guessing sourcehut.org is a marketing page while sr.ht continues to be the service domain.
  - niftich 8y ago
    Well, the default config itself has been updated with the new name [1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8] -- this what you'd self-host, and is also what's hosted out of 'sh.rt', but we're splitting hairs to pedantic, and both of us are mostly right. It seems 'sh.rt' will continue to be the service domain while the software (but not the identities of the artifacts) have been renamed for ease, and it's all being done in a way to maximize benefit and minimize breakage. [1] https://git.sr.ht/~sircmpwn/man.sr.ht/commit/3341103722219181740a129d5e88b3bb160cd33c https://git.sr.ht/~sircmpwn/man.sr.ht/commit/334110372221918... [2] https://git.sr.ht/~sircmpwn/lists.sr.ht/commit/b8016bc1b8e51dd0cf78625ef0cc34eb8b96d57f https://git.sr.ht/~sircmpwn/lists.sr.ht/commit/b8016bc1b8e51... [3] https://git.sr.ht/~sircmpwn/builds.sr.ht/commit/0bebfad24973ed242da1a51fc9a83f2647c38a0b https://git.sr.ht/~sircmpwn/builds.sr.ht/commit/0bebfad24973... [4] https://git.sr.ht/~sircmpwn/dispatch.sr.ht/commit/5a618375c7b120331c0c3ccfb26dc3b5dc65be98 https://git.sr.ht/~sircmpwn/dispatch.sr.ht/commit/5a618375c7... [5] https://git.sr.ht/~sircmpwn/todo.sr.ht/commit/d84ecaa6e4a56b9c00783bd7620cd86057a60e21 https://git.sr.ht/~sircmpwn/todo.sr.ht/commit/d84ecaa6e4a56b... [6] https://git.sr.ht/~sircmpwn/meta.sr.ht/commit/1c1931b1307989edb972647b52d0a9c4be819b4b https://git.sr.ht/~sircmpwn/meta.sr.ht/commit/1c1931b1307989... [7] https://git.sr.ht/~sircmpwn/hg.sr.ht/commit/09255a6bfe108067bc0df08ce3e3d5b11c3fd1be https://git.sr.ht/~sircmpwn/hg.sr.ht/commit/09255a6bfe108067... [8] https://git.sr.ht/~sircmpwn/git.sr.ht/commit/ed9527f23cef223dc1b68ead8116bbddac98d144 https://git.sr.ht/~sircmpwn/git.sr.ht/commit/ed9527f23cef223...
crooked-v 8y ago
I was personally hoping for "Sir Hat", with a Shovel Knight-style mascot.
- chrisweekly 8y ago
  It's not too late! No reason sourcebut can't have a shovelknight-esque mascot, right?
- pjc50 8y ago
  I keep thinking of highly memeable Eurovision singer Serhat : https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serhat_(singer) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serhat_(singer)
  - wyldfire 8y ago
    How about Sir Topham Hatt? [1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fat_Controller https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fat_Controller
_eht 8y ago
As the owner of e.ht, welcome to the world of obscure short TLD’s!
- mikro2nd 8y ago
  Interested how you pulled that one off, since .ht domains are supposedly constrained by the DNA to have at least 3 characters (3 - 63 chars).
  - wccrawford 8y ago
    Sr.ht only has 2 before the .ht. So even that violates that rule.
  - _eht 8y ago
    Most registrars won’t let you search under three chars. Reach out directly to the ccTLD managing group and see what they have available a-z-0-9. With enough persistence you may find one.
badosu 8y ago
I like the minimalistic approach though I'd recommend to align horizontally the content for higher viewports, e.g. `body { max-width: 1140px; margin: 0 auto }`
ArtWomb 8y ago
Great branding! How about a logo contest? ;)
- Sir_Cmpwn 8y ago
  Friend of mine made this one: https://sr.ht/ekPb.png https://sr.ht/ekPb.png The official logo is this :) https://git.sr.ht/~sircmpwn/sourcehut.org/tree/master/logo.svg https://git.sr.ht/~sircmpwn/sourcehut.org/tree/master/logo.s... (which is just a circle, like the favicon)
  - WrtCdEvrydy 8y ago
    I have a feeling the first one will take off in ways you would never see coming... delivered by a process server
  - pbhjpbhj 8y ago
    My idea, https://ibb.co/nmKymTW https://ibb.co/nmKymTW - it's a 1.9kB svg but I'm sure it can be reduced to something manageable.
deleted 8y ago
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bencollier49 8y ago
For some reason this name puts me in mind of Chicken Cottage. https://chickencottage.com/ https://chickencottage.com/
- twic 8y ago
  Sauce Hut would be a good name for a takeaway chain, barbecue, jerk, or Dutch-style fries maybe.
  - Talusmaximus 8y ago
    Hut Sauce?
nixpulvis 8y ago
"All features work without JavaScript" oh hello there, my new friend. :)
- combatentropy 8y ago
  Indeed, I haven't seen a single script tag in any of the pages. It's written in Python, using Flask, https://drewdevault.com/2019/01/30/Why-I-built-sr.ht-with-Flask.html https://drewdevault.com/2019/01/30/Why-I-built-sr.ht-with-Fl...
  - juice13 8y ago
    There is javascript for progressive enhancement on some pages. E.g. submitting comments on tickets by pressing Ctrl+Enter, or selection of ranges of lines in git blob view. For example: https://git.sr.ht/~sircmpwn/sourcehut.org/tree/master/content/_index.html#L12-17,20-27 https://git.sr.ht/~sircmpwn/sourcehut.org/tree/master/conten... But everything is designed to work well without JS first.
- mikro2nd 8y ago
  I was especially impressed and made happy by the absence of Google Analytics script (at least on the one page I checked.)
jhare 8y ago
Mr. Devault is serious about software craft. He's worth your $10 if you are considering. I am a early adopter of his works.
- mbrumlow 8y ago
  I agree says one die hard sway user.
- O_H_E 8y ago
  What I am currently doubting is whether there is enough niche of people like us who are willing to pay for these [non-mainstream] projects/devs for future sustainability.
- voltagex_ 8y ago
  There's no obvious way to donate from sourcehut.org.
  - woodruffw 8y ago
    You can set up (and pay for) an account here: https://meta.sr.ht/ https://meta.sr.ht/ If you don't want an account, there's some donation information here: https://drewdevault.com/backers https://drewdevault.com/backers
jordigh 8y ago
Mercurial support, fuck yeah: https://hg.sr.ht/ https://hg.sr.ht/ This is the killer feature for me. Why Mercurial? Here’s a list of Mercurial features that I think are really cool: Revsets – a domain-specific language for querying your commits Templates – a domain-specific language for altering the output of almost every command. Putting together these two you can do things like this: http://jordi.inversethought.com/blog/customising-mercurial-like-a-pro/ http://jordi.inversethought.com/blog/customising-mercurial-l... Evolution – a distributed and safe way to share rewrites (think automatically recovering from upstream rebase without any git reset --hard and no git push --force). Absorb – automatically amends an entire stack of WIP commits at once by picking the right diffs from your working directory based on which commits’ contexts they fit best. Curses interface for hunk-picking – a unified interface for splitting diffs for any purpose: whether to revert working-directory changes, write a new commit, uncommit parts of a commit, or amend a commit with more diffs. Just add --interactive to any of those commands and start picking hunks! A fairly rich built-in web interface – hg serve and point your browser to http://localhost:8000 http://localhost:8000 and you’re good to go. Lots of support for monorepos – indeed, this is the main reason that Google, Facebook, and Mozilla are all pouring work into hg and are using it. A consistent UI – this one is more subjective but often-touted feature of Mercurial. If a command accepts a revision/hash/tag/bookmark; it always uses the -r/--rev flag for it (and you can also always use a revset for any command that accepts a revision). If a command allows hunk selection, it always uses the -i/--interactive flag for it. The help for every command fits in about a screenful. Give it a try! Mercurial is neat!
- morpheuskafka 8y ago
  > a domain-specific language for querying your commits Meanwhile I google "how to print commit history git" for the 100th time...
  - jordigh 8y ago
    I admit, I do `hg help revsets` with some regularity, because I do need to look up the right functions that can perform the query I want, but it's really just a reference check, not a check on the syntax of the language.
gregknicholson 8y ago
Source: https://lists.sr.ht/~sircmpwn/sr.ht-announce/%3C20190206223744.GA10775%40homura.localdomain%3E https://lists.sr.ht/~sircmpwn/sr.ht-announce/%3C201902062237...
anderspitman 8y ago
Funny how as I clicked on the "100% free and open source software" button my brain subconsciously branch-predicted the layout of a GitHub page. The payoff was worth the stall.
baroffoos 8y ago
The UI seems very usable. I wonder how the performance stacks up against something like gogs. One of the main things I don't like is the email focus. I think one of the best things the modern git websites have done is replace email with merge requests which are just so much easier to use, tag, and search. I get that this is a tool made for those old devs who still want to do everything from mutt though.
- Aeolun 8y ago
  Balls, I thought this was really nice until I read your comment. That patch page is pretty indecipherable.
- chrismorgan 8y ago
  I shall claim that difficulty in using email for these things is mostly because of unfamiliarity. Keeping patches and discussion together can work really well. It tends to do better for record-keeping, especially. It may take a bit of getting used to, but when you are used to it, it’s a sane and reasonable approach in most cases. (Not all, but most.)
- chriswarbo 8y ago
  The nice thing about email is that you're free to render and interact with it in any way you like. Yes, you could use mutt; or you could use Webmail if you prefer; or you could run them through some automation scripts; or through some custom CLI/GUI/mobile app/Web service/etc.
  - baroffoos 8y ago
    GitLab and GitHub also send you emails but they provide a sane UI to use as well. The only benefit I see to email is it serves as a central notification location so I dont have to check every website to see what is new.
    - chriswarbo 8y ago
      > The only benefit I see to email is it serves as a central notification location so I dont have to check every website to see what is new. I agree that email is good for notifications. Surely "checking Web sites to see what's new" was solved with RSS/ATOM? (Again, once the data's out there, the UI is your choice; e.g. I convert RSS/ATOM to maildir so I can use my preferred email client for everything; I put HackerNews (HNRSS and HNNotify), subreddits, youtube channels, etc. into the same folder as my mailing lists)
aitchnyu 8y ago
Could you take care of the Flash of Unstyled Content in Firefox? The page first renders with no css and then with css. I solve it by putting a blank script tag, you could still keep your promise of it working without js. https://stackoverflow.com/a/47348262/604511 https://stackoverflow.com/a/47348262/604511
r3bl 8y ago
For a website trying to convince me it's good to host my projects using it, it was incredibly complicated to get from the homepage to any repo to see it in action (note: on a phone). I've opened the homepage, didn't see any obvious links, went to sr.ht, saw just a login/register screen. I went back, continued scanning for a usable link on sourcehat.org, and ended up leaving the whole thing in frustration. Still curious, I took my laptop and only then have I figured out that images link to example repositories on click. As a result, my first impression can be summed up as "unintuitive".

289 points by Boulth 8y ago

Good choice. It's memorable. I signed up as a paid user when it was last on hacker news. Got an email invoice. Then for the life of me could not remember what the service was called. Finally gave up trying to use it.

deleted 8y ago
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weinzierl 8y ago
For me it's the opposite. Can't forget sir hat, too pictorial to forget. sourcehut on the other hand is one of too many source somethings. It's more prefessional for sure and if it is the official name we can still keep sir hat as a nickname I guess.

kardos 8y ago

Your form for registering is not using TLS: action="http://meta.sr.ht.local/register"

kardos 8y ago
Looks OK if you use the form at https://meta.sr.ht/register https://meta.sr.ht/register
ddevault 8y ago
Fixed, should be deployed momentarily. Thanks!
- ATsch 8y ago
  I hope you're using the Upgrade-Insecure-Requests CSP setting!
- _eht 8y ago
  On your /tutorials/set-up-account-and-git.md you really should not encourage default ssh-keygen. Please update with either `ssh-keygen -t ed25519 -a 100` or `ssh-keygen -t rsa -b 4096 -o -a 100` or
  - Sir_Cmpwn 8y ago
    I think your case is better made to openssl than to me.

meddlepal 8y ago

I love the minimalist info-dense UI. Thank you for avoiding modern UI trends.

kowdermeister 8y ago
Minimalism is a modern UI trend :)
- meddlepal 8y ago
  If by minimalism you mean flat design I agree, but it's usually not information dense.
  - thekelvinliu 8y ago
    "brutalism"
    - meddlepal 8y ago
      As an architecture enthusiast and a fan of brutalism I am having trouble connecting this word with UI. This style of UI reminds me of something different... a late 80's/early 90's simplicity. Yet it's still stylish. I am hesitant to call it retroism because it will cheapen the movement to do that. It's refreshing and unique.

aboutruby 8y ago

Much better, nice!

antiquitie 8y ago

Cool to see another big flask project. I'd love to see a lighter and snappier alternative to gitlab.

StavrosK 8y ago
Like Gitea?

niftich 8y ago

As of posting, the info on this site is very lean, but going forward sourcehut seems to be the name for the software suite of the service 'sr.ht'. The linkage is implied by the quote on the site that "sr.ht is a hosted instance of sourcehut provided for your convenience". The impetus behind the branding clarification seems to be this HN thread [1]. For more history, see the the debut announcement [2] and its corresponding HN thread [3]. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18929709#18930413 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18929709#18930413 [2] https://drewdevault.com/2018/11/15/sr.ht-general-availability.html https://drewdevault.com/2018/11/15/sr.ht-general-availabilit... [3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18458908 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18458908

vertex-four 8y ago
Seems to be otherwise - https://meta.sr.ht https://meta.sr.ht is now branded as "sourcehut". I'm guessing sourcehut.org is a marketing page while sr.ht continues to be the service domain.
- niftich 8y ago
  Well, the default config itself has been updated with the new name [1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8] -- this what you'd self-host, and is also what's hosted out of 'sh.rt', but we're splitting hairs to pedantic, and both of us are mostly right. It seems 'sh.rt' will continue to be the service domain while the software (but not the identities of the artifacts) have been renamed for ease, and it's all being done in a way to maximize benefit and minimize breakage. [1] https://git.sr.ht/~sircmpwn/man.sr.ht/commit/3341103722219181740a129d5e88b3bb160cd33c https://git.sr.ht/~sircmpwn/man.sr.ht/commit/334110372221918... [2] https://git.sr.ht/~sircmpwn/lists.sr.ht/commit/b8016bc1b8e51dd0cf78625ef0cc34eb8b96d57f https://git.sr.ht/~sircmpwn/lists.sr.ht/commit/b8016bc1b8e51... [3] https://git.sr.ht/~sircmpwn/builds.sr.ht/commit/0bebfad24973ed242da1a51fc9a83f2647c38a0b https://git.sr.ht/~sircmpwn/builds.sr.ht/commit/0bebfad24973... [4] https://git.sr.ht/~sircmpwn/dispatch.sr.ht/commit/5a618375c7b120331c0c3ccfb26dc3b5dc65be98 https://git.sr.ht/~sircmpwn/dispatch.sr.ht/commit/5a618375c7... [5] https://git.sr.ht/~sircmpwn/todo.sr.ht/commit/d84ecaa6e4a56b9c00783bd7620cd86057a60e21 https://git.sr.ht/~sircmpwn/todo.sr.ht/commit/d84ecaa6e4a56b... [6] https://git.sr.ht/~sircmpwn/meta.sr.ht/commit/1c1931b1307989edb972647b52d0a9c4be819b4b https://git.sr.ht/~sircmpwn/meta.sr.ht/commit/1c1931b1307989... [7] https://git.sr.ht/~sircmpwn/hg.sr.ht/commit/09255a6bfe108067bc0df08ce3e3d5b11c3fd1be https://git.sr.ht/~sircmpwn/hg.sr.ht/commit/09255a6bfe108067... [8] https://git.sr.ht/~sircmpwn/git.sr.ht/commit/ed9527f23cef223dc1b68ead8116bbddac98d144 https://git.sr.ht/~sircmpwn/git.sr.ht/commit/ed9527f23cef223...

crooked-v 8y ago

I was personally hoping for "Sir Hat", with a Shovel Knight-style mascot.

chrisweekly 8y ago
It's not too late! No reason sourcebut can't have a shovelknight-esque mascot, right?
pjc50 8y ago
I keep thinking of highly memeable Eurovision singer Serhat : https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serhat_(singer) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serhat_(singer)
- wyldfire 8y ago
  How about Sir Topham Hatt? [1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fat_Controller https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fat_Controller

_eht 8y ago

As the owner of e.ht, welcome to the world of obscure short TLD’s!

mikro2nd 8y ago
Interested how you pulled that one off, since .ht domains are supposedly constrained by the DNA to have at least 3 characters (3 - 63 chars).
- wccrawford 8y ago
  Sr.ht only has 2 before the .ht. So even that violates that rule.
- _eht 8y ago
  Most registrars won’t let you search under three chars. Reach out directly to the ccTLD managing group and see what they have available a-z-0-9. With enough persistence you may find one.

badosu 8y ago

I like the minimalistic approach though I'd recommend to align horizontally the content for higher viewports, e.g. `body { max-width: 1140px; margin: 0 auto }`

ArtWomb 8y ago

Great branding! How about a logo contest? ;)

Sir_Cmpwn 8y ago
Friend of mine made this one: https://sr.ht/ekPb.png https://sr.ht/ekPb.png The official logo is this :) https://git.sr.ht/~sircmpwn/sourcehut.org/tree/master/logo.svg https://git.sr.ht/~sircmpwn/sourcehut.org/tree/master/logo.s... (which is just a circle, like the favicon)
- WrtCdEvrydy 8y ago
  I have a feeling the first one will take off in ways you would never see coming... delivered by a process server
- pbhjpbhj 8y ago
  My idea, https://ibb.co/nmKymTW https://ibb.co/nmKymTW - it's a 1.9kB svg but I'm sure it can be reduced to something manageable.

deleted 8y ago

[deleted]

bencollier49 8y ago

For some reason this name puts me in mind of Chicken Cottage. https://chickencottage.com/ https://chickencottage.com/

twic 8y ago
Sauce Hut would be a good name for a takeaway chain, barbecue, jerk, or Dutch-style fries maybe.
- Talusmaximus 8y ago
  Hut Sauce?

nixpulvis 8y ago

"All features work without JavaScript" oh hello there, my new friend. :)

combatentropy 8y ago
Indeed, I haven't seen a single script tag in any of the pages. It's written in Python, using Flask, https://drewdevault.com/2019/01/30/Why-I-built-sr.ht-with-Flask.html https://drewdevault.com/2019/01/30/Why-I-built-sr.ht-with-Fl...
- juice13 8y ago
  There is javascript for progressive enhancement on some pages. E.g. submitting comments on tickets by pressing Ctrl+Enter, or selection of ranges of lines in git blob view. For example: https://git.sr.ht/~sircmpwn/sourcehut.org/tree/master/content/_index.html#L12-17,20-27 https://git.sr.ht/~sircmpwn/sourcehut.org/tree/master/conten... But everything is designed to work well without JS first.
mikro2nd 8y ago
I was especially impressed and made happy by the absence of Google Analytics script (at least on the one page I checked.)

jhare 8y ago

Mr. Devault is serious about software craft. He's worth your $10 if you are considering. I am a early adopter of his works.

mbrumlow 8y ago
I agree says one die hard sway user.
O_H_E 8y ago
What I am currently doubting is whether there is enough niche of people like us who are willing to pay for these [non-mainstream] projects/devs for future sustainability.
voltagex_ 8y ago
There's no obvious way to donate from sourcehut.org.
- woodruffw 8y ago
  You can set up (and pay for) an account here: https://meta.sr.ht/ https://meta.sr.ht/ If you don't want an account, there's some donation information here: https://drewdevault.com/backers https://drewdevault.com/backers

jordigh 8y ago

Mercurial support, fuck yeah: https://hg.sr.ht/ https://hg.sr.ht/ This is the killer feature for me. Why Mercurial? Here’s a list of Mercurial features that I think are really cool: Revsets – a domain-specific language for querying your commits Templates – a domain-specific language for altering the output of almost every command. Putting together these two you can do things like this: http://jordi.inversethought.com/blog/customising-mercurial-like-a-pro/ http://jordi.inversethought.com/blog/customising-mercurial-l... Evolution – a distributed and safe way to share rewrites (think automatically recovering from upstream rebase without any git reset --hard and no git push --force). Absorb – automatically amends an entire stack of WIP commits at once by picking the right diffs from your working directory based on which commits’ contexts they fit best. Curses interface for hunk-picking – a unified interface for splitting diffs for any purpose: whether to revert working-directory changes, write a new commit, uncommit parts of a commit, or amend a commit with more diffs. Just add --interactive to any of those commands and start picking hunks! A fairly rich built-in web interface – hg serve and point your browser to http://localhost:8000 http://localhost:8000 and you’re good to go. Lots of support for monorepos – indeed, this is the main reason that Google, Facebook, and Mozilla are all pouring work into hg and are using it. A consistent UI – this one is more subjective but often-touted feature of Mercurial. If a command accepts a revision/hash/tag/bookmark; it always uses the -r/--rev flag for it (and you can also always use a revset for any command that accepts a revision). If a command allows hunk selection, it always uses the -i/--interactive flag for it. The help for every command fits in about a screenful. Give it a try! Mercurial is neat!

morpheuskafka 8y ago
> a domain-specific language for querying your commits Meanwhile I google "how to print commit history git" for the 100th time...
- jordigh 8y ago
  I admit, I do `hg help revsets` with some regularity, because I do need to look up the right functions that can perform the query I want, but it's really just a reference check, not a check on the syntax of the language.

gregknicholson 8y ago

Source: https://lists.sr.ht/~sircmpwn/sr.ht-announce/%3C20190206223744.GA10775%40homura.localdomain%3E https://lists.sr.ht/~sircmpwn/sr.ht-announce/%3C201902062237...

anderspitman 8y ago

Funny how as I clicked on the "100% free and open source software" button my brain subconsciously branch-predicted the layout of a GitHub page. The payoff was worth the stall.

baroffoos 8y ago

The UI seems very usable. I wonder how the performance stacks up against something like gogs. One of the main things I don't like is the email focus. I think one of the best things the modern git websites have done is replace email with merge requests which are just so much easier to use, tag, and search. I get that this is a tool made for those old devs who still want to do everything from mutt though.

Aeolun 8y ago
Balls, I thought this was really nice until I read your comment. That patch page is pretty indecipherable.
chrismorgan 8y ago
I shall claim that difficulty in using email for these things is mostly because of unfamiliarity. Keeping patches and discussion together can work really well. It tends to do better for record-keeping, especially. It may take a bit of getting used to, but when you are used to it, it’s a sane and reasonable approach in most cases. (Not all, but most.)
chriswarbo 8y ago
The nice thing about email is that you're free to render and interact with it in any way you like. Yes, you could use mutt; or you could use Webmail if you prefer; or you could run them through some automation scripts; or through some custom CLI/GUI/mobile app/Web service/etc.
- baroffoos 8y ago
  GitLab and GitHub also send you emails but they provide a sane UI to use as well. The only benefit I see to email is it serves as a central notification location so I dont have to check every website to see what is new.
  - chriswarbo 8y ago
    > The only benefit I see to email is it serves as a central notification location so I dont have to check every website to see what is new. I agree that email is good for notifications. Surely "checking Web sites to see what's new" was solved with RSS/ATOM? (Again, once the data's out there, the UI is your choice; e.g. I convert RSS/ATOM to maildir so I can use my preferred email client for everything; I put HackerNews (HNRSS and HNNotify), subreddits, youtube channels, etc. into the same folder as my mailing lists)

aitchnyu 8y ago

Could you take care of the Flash of Unstyled Content in Firefox? The page first renders with no css and then with css. I solve it by putting a blank script tag, you could still keep your promise of it working without js. https://stackoverflow.com/a/47348262/604511 https://stackoverflow.com/a/47348262/604511

r3bl 8y ago

For a website trying to convince me it's good to host my projects using it, it was incredibly complicated to get from the homepage to any repo to see it in action (note: on a phone). I've opened the homepage, didn't see any obvious links, went to sr.ht, saw just a login/register screen. I went back, continued scanning for a usable link on sourcehat.org, and ended up leaving the whole thing in frustration. Still curious, I took my laptop and only then have I figured out that images link to example repositories on click. As a result, my first impression can be summed up as "unintuitive".