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Re:Is Git Irreplaceable? (2019) by cmrdporcupine on Tuesday January 07, 2020 @09:08AM (#21979993)
Yes, this. I actually tried bk before git, and actually used bazaar and then mercurial before git as well. I was stunned at how arcane the UI in git was made (And how arrogant the community of users around it could be, too). Bk was clean and elegant frankly. I'm no idiot when it comes to the concepts -- but git's CLI interface is just awful.

Bitkeeper is in fact open source now, BTW. Too late, but it is.

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Re:Is Git Irreplaceable? (2019) by ldiracdelta on Tuesday January 07, 2020 @10:00AM (#21980496)
You're right. The arrogance was hilarious. People with no experience with bk saying, "What's your problem?" Now, git is super fast, because its core is written by Linus, but I think he is just so much better technically and so far into the internal weeds of Linux for so long in so many areas that he had trouble creating an API for mere mortals.
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