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Re:OpenJDK Migrates to GitHub by creato on Sunday July 26, 2020 @01:19AM (#23954625)
Should we care about a monoculture around a local used/hosted, open source tool?

I might worry about a monoculture around a hosted service like github, but not git itself.

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Re:OpenJDK Migrates to GitHub by riffraff on Sunday July 26, 2020 @02:04AM (#23954805)
Yes, we should. Remember when GCC had no open source competition? Things have been much better since clang came out.

Or consider openssl since libressl came out. Yes it's possible that codebase improvements would have happened anyways, but having open source competition is great.

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Re:OpenJDK Migrates to GitHub by _ZeD_ on Sunday July 26, 2020 @01:24AM (#23954647)
I'm sorry because both the ui and the underlying model of Mercurial is factually Better than git
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Re:OpenJDK Migrates to GitHub by chrisseaton on Sunday July 26, 2020 @06:33AM (#23956014)
> is factually Better than git

It obviously isn't 'factually' better - that's a matter of opinion not fact.

And in my experience, both Mercurial's model and UI is very over-complicated with far too many concepts. Git has a smaller number of simpler primitives and primitive operations. I think that makes the underlying model of Git better and that's why I prefer it.

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