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Yet another Mercurial-stan convinced of their "rightness" in the face of the overwhelming popularity of the alternative. Just blame "Github" and the "cool kids"

Yet another Mercurial-stan convinced of their "rightness" in the face of the overwhelming popularity of the alternative. Just blame "Github" and the "cool kids" for picking the "wrong thing". I used Mercurial for a while when I was still also learning Git and migrating from SVN. It had serious UX problems and Git just "clicked" for me in a way that Mercurial just never did. Perhaps I just wasn't smart enough to see the genius of Mercurial.

BeetleB 2y ago
Preferring git because mercurial had serious UX problems is like picking C because Python makes it easy to have memory leaks.
- vendiddy 2y ago
  That is a valid reason to pick Python.
  - remram 2y ago
    You read that wrong I think
chipdart 2y ago
> Yet another Mercurial-stan convinced of their "rightness" in the face of the overwhelming popularity of the alternative. Just blame "Github" and the "cool kids" for picking the "wrong thing". Any time someone complains about popularity and tries to sell rewrites in Rust as a solution to attract more users, you know right there and then what kind of delusion you're dealing with.
- lucisferre 2y ago
  That was really the worst part of the post. Just the total lack of self awareness. "Look it is clearly the best tool, all we have to do is rebuild it completely from the ground up."
rcxdude 2y ago
I also just didn't really get on with mercurial. I think while the main flow was a bit more intuitive for those coming from SVN, the underlying model was quite complex and fussy. While Git has a pretty unintuitive and hard to remember UI, the underlying model is simple enough I can basically just go "I want to manipulate the graph like X" and then figure out which command actually does it (and there is always one available, even if it's not sensibly named). With mercurial the answer usually was "Well, what you should have done was enable this extension (or worse: one of two extensions, each of which has slightly different capabilities) and configure it like so, and then do these steps. What you've got now can't be changed".
throw0101d 2y ago
> Yet another Mercurial-stan convinced of their "rightness" in the face of the overwhelming popularity of the alternative. It follows then that Windows® is a much better desktop/laptop OS (than Linux or macOS), given its popularity.

BeetleB 2y ago

Preferring git because mercurial had serious UX problems is like picking C because Python makes it easy to have memory leaks.

vendiddy 2y ago
That is a valid reason to pick Python.
- remram 2y ago
  You read that wrong I think

chipdart 2y ago

> Yet another Mercurial-stan convinced of their "rightness" in the face of the overwhelming popularity of the alternative. Just blame "Github" and the "cool kids" for picking the "wrong thing". Any time someone complains about popularity and tries to sell rewrites in Rust as a solution to attract more users, you know right there and then what kind of delusion you're dealing with.

lucisferre 2y ago
That was really the worst part of the post. Just the total lack of self awareness. "Look it is clearly the best tool, all we have to do is rebuild it completely from the ground up."

rcxdude 2y ago

I also just didn't really get on with mercurial. I think while the main flow was a bit more intuitive for those coming from SVN, the underlying model was quite complex and fussy. While Git has a pretty unintuitive and hard to remember UI, the underlying model is simple enough I can basically just go "I want to manipulate the graph like X" and then figure out which command actually does it (and there is always one available, even if it's not sensibly named). With mercurial the answer usually was "Well, what you should have done was enable this extension (or worse: one of two extensions, each of which has slightly different capabilities) and configure it like so, and then do these steps. What you've got now can't be changed".

throw0101d 2y ago

> Yet another Mercurial-stan convinced of their "rightness" in the face of the overwhelming popularity of the alternative. It follows then that Windows® is a much better desktop/laptop OS (than Linux or macOS), given its popularity.