Facebook Messenger protocol in Pidgin

Re:Facebook Messenger protocol in Pidgin by xiaomai on Thursday January 14, 2016 @11:51AM (#10902547)

Mercurial had a more familiar, but much worse interface than git.

More familiar because it was essentially subversions interface made suitable for a dvcs.

Worse for lacking (or requiring plugins for) features like the index, commit amending, rebasing, lightweight branches, etc.

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Re:Facebook Messenger protocol in Pidgin by jordigh on Thursday January 14, 2016 @01:33PM (#10903339)

Git didn't have any of those things either except "lightweight branches". It wasn't until 2006 or so that git grew a reasonable commit command. Before then, people relied on tools such as cogito in order to get work done.

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Re:Facebook Messenger protocol in Pidgin by xolve on Thursday January 14, 2016 @02:50PM (#10903925)

Also, Linux kernel uses git! So it has a traction. Once people get used to a tool they stick to it.

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