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minus-squareGoun@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·5 months agoHonest question: why use mercurial?
minus-squareCactusEcho@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·5 months agoHaving alternatives is always good! And BTW, Git won not because it was better than mercurial…
minus-squareneukenindekeuken@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·5 months agoSure, at the very beginning of the launch of Git, Mercurial was better/had more features/more mature/etc. That’s just not true after 20 years of mainstream git adoption and development today.
minus-squareCactusEcho@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0arrow-down1·5 months agoMercurial is also simpler than Git and the commands are more intuitive
Honest question: why use mercurial?
Having alternatives is always good! And BTW, Git won not because it was better than mercurial…
Sure, at the very beginning of the launch of Git, Mercurial was better/had more features/more mature/etc.
That’s just not true after 20 years of mainstream git adoption and development today.
Mercurial is also simpler than Git and the commands are more intuitive