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What are the changes that Mercurial has? I've read many times that Mercurial is easier but I've never seen the reasons. The times I've used mercurial (mostly to
by gjulianm 4y ago
What are the changes that Mercurial has? I've read many times that Mercurial is easier but I've never seen the reasons. The times I've used mercurial (mostly to download a repo) it doesn't look that different, and other than the staging area weirdness I don't find git too difficult.
- freeone3000 4y agoYou know how when using git you have to add tons of flags to every command to make it do what a sane person would actually want? Mercurial just does what you want.
- LaPingvino 4y agoI'm going to be blunt and state that what most people want is not what they actually need. If you use Git for how it was designed, the commands remain generally pretty clean. If you come from an SVN mindset, you are probably not really using Git the way it was designed, and Mercurial fits better. I have used (actually introduced) Mercurial before at a company and considered them basically equivalent enough, only to get stuck in some horrible design choices of early Mercurial (named branches and not having rebase by default). I am happy to see these elements corrected in Sapling, giving me enough confidence that I might actually use Sapling over time...
- fragmede 4y agoNot really, my .hgrc is about as long as my .gitrc, mostly 1 or 2-letter aliases in both. It makes both of them much easier to work with my workflow.