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Mercurial is simpler than git. It is (or was) just too damn slow

• Izkata 2y ago
  For some people. Back when I only knew how to use subversion, I tried out both git and mercurial, and found mercurial confusing while git clicked immediately. Unfortunately it's been long enough I don't remember details why, just that it was something with how it handled branches.
  • capitainenemo 2y ago
    Mercurial has both "real" branches (history is kept so you can always tell what revisions were in what branch) as well as git "branch is just a pointer tag" So really you can choose whatever suits your needs. Personally the things I love about mercurial are: more consistent commandline (that's the simple part others bring up) revsets (awesome query language for revisions, there's also filesets, but I don't use that as much) absorb (I think someone added a git extension that does something similar a few months ago) fa --deleted grep --all phases ♥