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Re:Mercurial RFC of a new extension to directly operate on G... by viraptor on Wednesday October 30, 2019 @12:16AM (#21394657)
Or to put it another way, in this case git commands reflect what git needs to do, but hg commands reflect what the user wants to achieve. Which aligns with the "better UX" comments.
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Re:Mercurial RFC of a new extension to directly operate on G... by jobigoud on Wednesday October 30, 2019 @04:26AM (#21395573)
This has to be the top UX failure mode. Presenting the user with the abstractions we cleverly made in the code to factorize the architecture, instead of overlaying them with a different set of user-friendly abstractions.
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