Mercurial RFC of a new extension to directly operate on Git repositories

Re:Mercurial RFC of a new extension to directly operate on G... by miohtama on Tuesday October 29, 2019 @07:21PM (#21393135)

Git is what a version control UX would look like if it were written by kernel developers who only knew Perl and C

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Re:Mercurial RFC of a new extension to directly operate on G... by oconnor663 on Tuesday October 29, 2019 @10:28PM (#21394129)

And Bash! So much Bash...

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Re:Mercurial RFC of a new extension to directly operate on G... by type0 on Wednesday October 30, 2019 @08:55AM (#21397154)

Oh, enough bashing Git! It is for developers by developers. However you can teach cli newbies Hg management, but there's no chance to do the same with git.

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Re:Mercurial RFC of a new extension to directly operate on G... by oconnor663 on Thursday October 31, 2019 @11:47AM (#21410037)

> for developers by developers

The OXO brand of kitchen utensils was designed for people with arthritis. It became a giant worldwide brand because people realized that utensils that felt good for people with arthritis also felt good for everyone else.

Not everything is a tradeoff. Sometimes we can just do better.

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Re:Mercurial RFC of a new extension to directly operate on G... by zyx321 on Wednesday October 30, 2019 @05:59AM (#21396013)

"Would"? Isn't that literally how it happened?

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Re:Mercurial RFC of a new extension to directly operate on G... by mprev on Wednesday October 30, 2019 @10:34AM (#21398167)

I think that’s the joke.

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