Hello, On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 08:46:06AM +0200, Arne Babenhauserheide wrote: > Am Sonntag, 13. September 2009 18:26:42 schrieb Sergiu Ivanov: > > > I remember your long discussion about Mercurial vs. git, but I don't > > remember all the details, because I didn't understand a lot at those > > times. However, it has just occurred to me that I should start > > familiarizing with Mercurial by reading that discussion, because in > > this way I could reference things with respect to git, which I already > > know. In this way I'll the explanation ``why git is great'', too :-) > > I'd rather just read the last few posts, else you'll still be > reading fulltime next week :) We wrapped up the discussion there.
Hm :-) Thank you for the advice :-) > > Hm, immutable history frightens me -- my usual programming loop is > > like ``think->try->think again'', and during the third phase I often > > run into the necessity of changing what I have already done. Thus > > git-reset is one of my favourites :-) > > I think "git reset" is the equivalent to "hg rollback" which reverts > the last transaction. > > It's the only history changing operation in the standard commands, > and I guess that the reason is that it's used very often. > > I for one tend to do > $ hg ci -m "did it" > $ (think, find a typo, curse mentally) > $ hg roll > $ hg ci -m "did it" (OK, in fact that's hit the up arrow twice and follow up > with enter :) ). > $ (smile, think again... :) ) > > That whole loop shows up as one commit, too (since the last commit > is the last transaction). Aha, this means that hg does have an undo operation :-) This is what I often lack in real life ;-) > "hg rollback" can also be used to undo pulling from someone, since > it just reverts the last change to the history. Sounds great; I'm can't remember git-reset being able to do that, but it might be my lack of knowledge. > > BTW, I like the news idea a lot, since it keeps the Hurd web-site > > regularly updated. I, for instance, have the habit of looking at the > > ``last updated'' date on any new site I arrive on to assess the level > > of activity in the project. > > I do the same - that's why I got the idea of posting the news :) > > Back in the "OS and networking" informatics course, our prof told us > to gathe rinformation about the difference between the Hurd and > Linux. I realized back then that I wasn't able to find out if the > Hurd had recent activity in under an hour of searching. Hm, that was really bad :-( > Some time later I decided to amend that situation, first by working > on the wiki (and nagging ;) - Thomas did the brunt work of switching > to ikiwiki), and now by writing the news. Oh, I used to think that the Hurd wiki has always been running on ikiwiki... Your mails are very informative for me :-) > It can't be that the biggest vision for a really free kernel (I know of) is > deemed inactive, simply because the website isn't updated... especially when > writing is something I enjoy. Yeah, you are doing a very important contribution by writing the news, and this is great :-) Regards, scolobb
