On Friday 31. August 2018 13.03.22 Alessandro Rubini wrote: > > But I have a question for Berhnard, who says among other things I agree > with: > > * Use hg or other trackers if you can. > > why? It's already oh so difficult to get people make decent commits to > git, where at least I can point to all the world doing that...
I might answer that as someone else who prefers Mercurial. Firstly, it is a capable tool for doing distributed version control whose performance has easily been good enough for what most people need it for, including things like the Linux kernel, which is usually the vehicle used to discredit solutions other than Git. It employs a conceptual model that is powerful enough for what most people need it for. Here we ignore random people on Stack Overflow who exclaim things about Git being a "powerful object database" when asked to justify some arcane incantation required to do what might have been straightforward with other solutions. It has had a decent user interface from day one, as far as I can tell. Meanwhile, I recall advice on adopting Git which involved the Cogito front- end, now long since merged in with the actual Git interface, I guess. (Developers find a Subversion-style command interface comforting: who knew?!) There is interoperability with Git that is presumably acceptable given that people managed to migrate their stuff to Git after being lobbied to move to Git(Hub). It is actively maintained. I may not like the nature of some of the contributing organisations, but I cannot dispute that there are organisations who would not want to see it go away. All of the above are merely things that do not disqualify solutions like Mercurial, and from personal experience I could probably suggest tools like Bazaar (the "NG" variant, of course, given that Canonical pretended that the original Bazaar never existed) with caveats about the last point, although I imagine that someone still maintains that, too, maybe just not Canonical any more. But possibly far more important than the above, which is only stated to undermine claims of "not good enough" is that we all benefit from choice. I could probably find some advantages of Mercurial, too, but I would be satisfied with just giving everything a fair hearing. Paul _______________________________________________ Discussion mailing list Discussion@lists.fsfe.org https://lists.fsfe.org/mailman/listinfo/discussion This mailing list is covered by the FSFE's Code of Conduct. All participants are kindly asked to be excellent to each other: https://fsfe.org/about/codeofconduct
