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Or you could mention the elephant in the room, the fact that git is orders of magnitude faster than mercurial when your project grows beyond the "small" size.
by reality_czech 11y ago
Or you could mention the elephant in the room, the fact that git is orders of magnitude faster than mercurial when your project grows beyond the "small" size. Mercurial would be unusable on something like the Linux kernel, and uncomfortably slow on a lot of other projects. And big projects tend to have more developer mindshare-- funny how that works...
- kyrra 11y agoExcept there are large projects using Mercurial without issue. See Facebook for example. If you want to look at open source projects, all of Mozilla uses mercurial[0] with just the standard hg-web server. And it's size is comparable (same order of magnitude) as the linux kernel)[1]. If you want to make such claims, I'd love to see data backing it up. [0] https://hg.mozilla.org/ https://hg.mozilla.org/ [1] https://www.openhub.net/p/compare?project_0=Mozilla+Firefox&project_1=Linux+Kernel&submit_1=Go https://www.openhub.net/p/compare?project_0=Mozilla+Firefox&...