Hello, On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 01:55:41PM +0200, Arne Babenhauserheide wrote: > Am Mittwoch, 23. September 2009 13:19:05 schrieb Sergiu Ivanov: > > > better in Mercurial, because if there is only one instance of history > > for all feature clones, you can always screw things up globally. (I > > hope I understand things correctly.) > > You have different instances of the history, but all data _which isn't > changed_ is a simple hardlink.
Aha, I see. Sorry for talking rubbish :-( > > > My approach with git is "I can get a new clone" ;) > > > > I'd guess this is inspired by the general Mercurial feature-clone > > approach :-) > > It's rather inspired by trying for more than an hour how to fix my > broken repo and finally giving up ;) That's a powerful motivation indeed :-)q > > > It's sadly not easy to get there. > > > > Is it much easier to become a Mercurial guru? :-) > > That depends on what you call Guru :-) [paragraphs shuffled] > But to know enough about Mercurial for 95% of the use cases you need > far less time than for git. A few quotes I collected to back that > up: I'd call a Guru a person who knows what to do in 99% use-cases :-) IMHO, becoming a Guru in any domain isn't any easier than in any other one. However, becoming an average (or even advanced) user may be easier somewhere. A smooth learning curve is a great thing, though :-) I think I like smoother learning curves better :-) Though I wouldn't say that the learning curve in git is so extremely steep. > (shameless self-advertisment: anonymous collaboration: > - http://draketo.de/english/mercurial/anonymous-code-collaboration-freenethg > - http://draketo.de/light/english/mercurial/workflow-concept-automatic- > trusted-group-committers > :-) ) :-) > - I understood how to install Mercurial and how to use it in a few > minutes. - Giorgos Keramidas > > - Just works the way I expect - Paul Moore > > - There isn't much to learn to be effective. - Doug Philips > > - Mercurial's conceptual model is clean and simple enough to carry > around in my head. - hgbook > > - Mercurial offers an excellent "sweet spot" in terms of > flexibility, simplicity, and speed. - Alex Martelli, Google Tech > Lead. Hm, I wonder whether we could collect (or concoct) similar phrases about the Hurd. It should be nice if we could... Regards, scolobb
