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It's a bit odd that there's such a monoculture around git though, where are the competitors?

creato 6y ago
Should we care about a monoculture around a local used/hosted, open source tool? I might worry about a monoculture around a hosted service like github, but not git itself.
- _ZeD_ 6y ago
  I'm sorry because both the ui and the underlying model of Mercurial is factually Better than git
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  - chrisseaton 6y ago
    > is factually Better than git It obviously isn't 'factually' better - that's a matter of opinion not fact. And in my experience, both Mercurial's model and UI is very over-complicated with far too many concepts. Git has a smaller number of simpler primitives and primitive operations. I think that makes the underlying model of Git better and that's why I prefer it.
- riffraff 6y ago
  Yes, we should. Remember when GCC had no open source competition? Things have been much better since clang came out. Or consider openssl since libressl came out. Yes it's possible that codebase improvements would have happened anyways, but having open source competition is great.
nestorD 6y ago
Pijul is an interesting young alternative: https://pijul.org/ https://pijul.org/
the_duke 6y ago
I would love a competitor with significant benefits. Git has plenty of warts. As it stands, it's just a lot easier to use Git everywhere though, just so developers don't have to learn a new tool. https://pijul.org/ https://pijul.org/ is the only somewhat somewhat interesting alternative I know about, but it's implementation is in alpha territory, and development seems dead.
- pmeunier 6y ago
  As one of the authors, I can tell you that Pijul development has never been as alive as today. It isn't public yet for a variety of reasons, but will be very soon.
  - the_duke 6y ago
    That's great to hear!
  - OvidiusCicero 6y ago
    May I suggest that you write something like that on the webpage? It looks really disappointing with the last activity from 2019 at the moment

Should we care about a monoculture around a local used/hosted, open source tool? I might worry about a monoculture around a hosted service like github, but not git itself.

_ZeD_ 6y ago
I'm sorry because both the ui and the underlying model of Mercurial is factually Better than git
- deleted 6y ago
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- chrisseaton 6y ago
  > is factually Better than git It obviously isn't 'factually' better - that's a matter of opinion not fact. And in my experience, both Mercurial's model and UI is very over-complicated with far too many concepts. Git has a smaller number of simpler primitives and primitive operations. I think that makes the underlying model of Git better and that's why I prefer it.
riffraff 6y ago
Yes, we should. Remember when GCC had no open source competition? Things have been much better since clang came out. Or consider openssl since libressl came out. Yes it's possible that codebase improvements would have happened anyways, but having open source competition is great.

nestorD 6y ago

Pijul is an interesting young alternative: https://pijul.org/ https://pijul.org/

the_duke 6y ago

I would love a competitor with significant benefits. Git has plenty of warts. As it stands, it's just a lot easier to use Git everywhere though, just so developers don't have to learn a new tool. https://pijul.org/ https://pijul.org/ is the only somewhat somewhat interesting alternative I know about, but it's implementation is in alpha territory, and development seems dead.

pmeunier 6y ago
As one of the authors, I can tell you that Pijul development has never been as alive as today. It isn't public yet for a variety of reasons, but will be very soon.
- the_duke 6y ago
  That's great to hear!
- OvidiusCicero 6y ago
  May I suggest that you write something like that on the webpage? It looks really disappointing with the last activity from 2019 at the moment