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I learned hg before git and the experience of switching to git was shockingly bad. I'm comfortable in both now and the big thing I'd miss if I went back to hg

I learned hg before git and the experience of switching to git was shockingly bad. I'm comfortable in both now and the big thing I'd miss if I went back to hg would be git stash (and I'm sure there's a hg plugin for it).

the_mitsuhiko 14y ago
> I learned hg before git and the experience of switching to git was shockingly bad. I'm comfortable in both now and the big thing I'd miss if I went back to hg would be git stash (and I'm sure there's a hg plugin for it). What about the index? Or the branching (bookmarks kinda work now I think), or the better remote management?
- tootie 14y ago
  I personally hate the index. It gets in my way far more often than I actually make use of it.
  - the_mitsuhiko 14y ago
    How does it ever get in the way? Just add `-a` and you can essentially ignore that there is an index on commits.
    - j-kidd 14y ago
      Let's say I modified an existing file (not staged) and then git add a new file. It is a work in progress, and the two changes are not supposed to be in the same commit. Now, what can I do to see all changes I have made so far? I have done this many times with subversion (svn diff) and mercurial (hg diff). Git's index just get in the way.
- syncsynchalt 14y ago
  You're touting these as positives for git but in the context of training a large group to use a new VCS they are a negative.
  - Aga 14y ago
    I have found branching in Git to be a pleasure to teach, even to large groups. There is nothing I have to hide about them, implementation or otherwise. "This is how it works and this is what you can do thanks to that"
rimantas 14y ago
Switching to git was very easy for me after hg screwed my repo. And git had much saner branching back then, not sure if anything changed in mercurial land.
__david__ 14y ago
That's interesting. I learned hg first and moved to git after being frustrated with hg's limitations. Yeah, git could use an overhaul on some of it's command line interfaces (using the index on different git commands: --cached, --stage, --index), but it's so much better overall that those things become minor quibbles.

the_mitsuhiko 14y ago

> I learned hg before git and the experience of switching to git was shockingly bad. I'm comfortable in both now and the big thing I'd miss if I went back to hg would be git stash (and I'm sure there's a hg plugin for it). What about the index? Or the branching (bookmarks kinda work now I think), or the better remote management?

tootie 14y ago
I personally hate the index. It gets in my way far more often than I actually make use of it.
- the_mitsuhiko 14y ago
  How does it ever get in the way? Just add `-a` and you can essentially ignore that there is an index on commits.
  - j-kidd 14y ago
    Let's say I modified an existing file (not staged) and then git add a new file. It is a work in progress, and the two changes are not supposed to be in the same commit. Now, what can I do to see all changes I have made so far? I have done this many times with subversion (svn diff) and mercurial (hg diff). Git's index just get in the way.
syncsynchalt 14y ago
You're touting these as positives for git but in the context of training a large group to use a new VCS they are a negative.
- Aga 14y ago
  I have found branching in Git to be a pleasure to teach, even to large groups. There is nothing I have to hide about them, implementation or otherwise. "This is how it works and this is what you can do thanks to that"

rimantas 14y ago

Switching to git was very easy for me after hg screwed my repo. And git had much saner branching back then, not sure if anything changed in mercurial land.

__david__ 14y ago

That's interesting. I learned hg first and moved to git after being frustrated with hg's limitations. Yeah, git could use an overhaul on some of it's command line interfaces (using the index on different git commands: --cached, --stage, --index), but it's so much better overall that those things become minor quibbles.