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Re:Why SQLite Does Not Use Git by peatmoss on Tuesday April 10, 2018 @07:19PM (#16806562)
Powerful? Certainly.

Most sane? That’s a matter of perspective. I’m still a little shocked that git “won out” over mercurial. Even as Subversion was eating CVS, everybody knew distributed revision control was going to ultimately prevail. I was pretty sure Darcs wasn’t going to achieve popularity, but I’d have bet anything that Mercurial would be the successor to Subversion. It was far more natural / similar for anyone who's ever worked with CVS/SVN.

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Re:Why SQLite Does Not Use Git by jdright on Tuesday April 10, 2018 @07:51PM (#16806800)
Python killed any chance of success for Mercurial.
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Re:Why SQLite Does Not Use Git by peatmoss on Tuesday April 10, 2018 @07:59PM (#16806855)
Agreed, but I’d have guessed that the Windows / git compatibility horrorshow (at least in the early days) would have nuked git’s chances as well.

I’d have bet on the success of more friendly CLI UX and comparatively easier time on Windows even with the disamenity of Python.

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Re:Why SQLite Does Not Use Git by pseudalopex on Wednesday April 11, 2018 @02:01AM (#16808435)
Why do you say that?
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