Key Git Concepts Explained the Hard Way

Re:Key Git Concepts Explained the Hard Way by fulafel on Wednesday March 14, 2018 @03:52PM (#16587728)

Yep. It's puzzling how it won over hg. Linux is a powerful mannequin I guess.

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Re:Key Git Concepts Explained the Hard Way by IshKebab on Thursday March 15, 2018 @06:03AM (#16591524)

I suspect things would have gone differently if Github supported Mercurial.

Also Git is now more or less locked in to terrible naming for its actions - yes they could be renamed but that would probably cause more issues than its worth. And Mercurial isn't dead yet - Facebook uses it and they're rewriting it in Rust (yeah yeah) to make it faster. I don't think the VCS wars are over yet.

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Re:Key Git Concepts Explained the Hard Way by throw7 on Wednesday March 14, 2018 @04:59PM (#16588239)

hg was slow. if linus, at the time, felt otherwise, it might have been hg that "won" when bitkeeper was dropped.

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Re:Key Git Concepts Explained the Hard Way by coldacid on Wednesday March 14, 2018 @08:25PM (#16589571)

If Linus, at the time, felt otherwise, git probably wouldn't have been created.

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Re:Key Git Concepts Explained the Hard Way by Noumenon72 on Wednesday March 14, 2018 @09:35PM (#16589902)

One of the nice things about my current job is they are still with hg -- we are going to have to switch to start using Bitbucket. I expect Git will be easier to understand the second time around, but I'll never forgive it for making itself so hard to use.

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Re:Key Git Concepts Explained the Hard Way by lozenge on Thursday March 15, 2018 @04:47AM (#16591232)

Bitbucket supports mercurial.

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Re:Key Git Concepts Explained the Hard Way by kyrra on Thursday March 15, 2018 @02:14PM (#16595227)

Bitbucket Server (on premesis) does not support mecurial.

https://confluence.atlassian.com/confeval/development-tools-...

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