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Re:What comes after Git by AlexandrB on Tuesday July 05, 2022 @11:46AM (#31989646)
Mercurial is really nice. I find its CLI interface much less confusing than Git's. I think a lot of this has to do with Git's "index" where you have to "add" files and then "commit" them. This seems like the #1 source of confusion when people are learning Git and persists into operations like "rebase" and "cherry-pick" where the index is used for marking conflicts as resolved or not.
Re:What comes after Git by beej71 on Tuesday July 05, 2022 @12:09PM (#31990033)
I personally always liked the flexibility the stage offers.
Re:What comes after Git by AlexandrB on Tuesday July 05, 2022 @02:05PM (#31991627)
Oh, I agree. It definitely has advantages once you get the hang of it! It might be nice if it was optional though so newbies could ignore it entirely.