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Well, IMHO, nowadays this classifies as bad design. It may have been the better design, but currently git's nomenclature is the standard and not complying to it

by loxs 11y ago

Well, IMHO, nowadays this classifies as bad design. It may have been the better design, but currently git's nomenclature is the standard and not complying to it will only hurt mercurial.

ngoldbaum 11y ago
Mercurial and git were initially released within a couple of weeks of each other. To change terminology now would break ten years of backward compatibility.
- loxs 11y ago
  I understand that, but my point is still valid. Mercurial is not "guilty" about this, but certainly suffers