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Now, I am not a programmer so I get to chose my tools all by myself without any peer preassure. In my early days I managed to destroy quite a lot (as in: counte
by bjoli 7y ago
Now, I am not a programmer so I get to chose my tools all by myself without any peer preassure. In my early days I managed to destroy quite a lot (as in: counted in hours) of work with git. I switched to hg at the same time as my source control usage became more advanced, and I haven't managed to fuck anything up since.
Now, I last used git extensively in 2011, and I have heard things have gotten better on the UX front. But now I am used to HG and don't have many reasons to switch. I gladly pay 20 bucks a year for having a place for mercurial repos.
- ulkesh 7y agoNo offense meant, and I appreciate the anecdote, but I don’t feel that skill level in the technology should indicate the usefulness of the technology. I’m trying to understand more objectively than that.
- bjoli 7y agoJudging from other stories, I am not alone. It seems to be a fairly typical story, even with people that use git in a professional setting. I never got comfortable using git after that, and my use case has mostly been to pull, branch, merge, push and the likes. Whenever something happens I have someone to ask, which also seems to be a common thing. A "git guy" you contact when things go wrong. With mercurial and darcs I never had that happen. Losing code is a deadly sin for a SCM should be behind at least 2 confirmation dialogues. Whenever pijul reaches 1.0 I will probably switch to that. It seems like patch theory done right.