Re:Where are my Git UI features from the future?
by guitarbill on Sunday January 08, 2023 @03:08PM
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I have found this to be a common assertion, but my experience has been different.
Mercurial Queues exists and people use(d) it. It has many, many more footguns than Git, and it's shockingly easy to loose work. The fact that this was ever acceptable is interesting.
Phabricator is not good, or at least not as good GitLab, GitHub, or Gerrit (IMO). This is important, because Git alone is half the picture nowadays.
The extensibility of Mercurial is also interesting, and leads to codebase-specific commands. This is maybe good for long-term developers, but makes onboarding new hires just that much harder.
So Mercurial's UX being that much better than Git is - in my very limited experience - a myth.
Mercurial Queues exists and people use(d) it. It has many, many more footguns than Git, and it's shockingly easy to loose work. The fact that this was ever acceptable is interesting.
Phabricator is not good, or at least not as good GitLab, GitHub, or Gerrit (IMO). This is important, because Git alone is half the picture nowadays.
The extensibility of Mercurial is also interesting, and leads to codebase-specific commands. This is maybe good for long-term developers, but makes onboarding new hires just that much harder.
So Mercurial's UX being that much better than Git is - in my very limited experience - a myth.