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Re:What comes after Git by bvrmn on Tuesday July 05, 2022 @10:23AM (#31988511)
> hg up doesn't require network access.

So it's like `git checkout` and doesn't cover all breakage cases.

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Re:What comes after Git by capitainenemo on Tuesday July 05, 2022 @11:06AM (#31989103)
Not sure how to answer that, but sure, I can imagine plenty of ways in which a local repo could be screwed up that might require a strip or just a complete fresh pull. "All breakage cases" is pretty broad.

My personal reasons for liking mercurial is some pretty amazing tooling (hg absorb, hg fa --deleted, revsets/filesets) combined with a friendly commandline with fairly sensible defaults.

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Re:What comes after Git by 8n4vidtmkvmk on Tuesday July 05, 2022 @07:56PM (#31995191)
Dunno what scenario it would fail on. You can also clone a local repo as long as you didn't mangle the .hg dir
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