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Wow, I just realized that I've been playing around with git and mercurial for nearly 17 years! And people are still confused about git! That's amazing. I sti
by krupan 3y ago
Wow, I just realized that I've been playing around with git and mercurial for nearly 17 years! And people are still confused about git! That's amazing. I still love that it's distributed, fast, and it handles branches and merges better than anything before it. I do wish the UI was better.
- goku12 3y agoHow often do you use Mercurial, compared to Git? > I do wish the UI was better. The times I use Mercurial, it feels like it manages to abstract away the gory details while still achieving almost everything git does. Mercurial even has queues built-in, whereas Git needs something like stgit or topgit to achieve the same. Would you say that Mercurial meets your expectations?
- krupan 3y agoI wish mercurial had won and we were all using it instead of git. I used hg exclusively from 2009-ish to 2016-ish and I still believe it has the better UI (but not perfect). I will say that git made mercurial better over the years, and quite probably mercurial made got better. It's too bad mercurial has all but died, I think general VCS progress has probably slowed without it.