I (kind of) killed Mercurial at Mozilla

Re:I (kind of) killed Mercurial at Mozilla by acdha on Wednesday November 22, 2023 @09:15AM (#38379439)

Sure, but most of those are things you rarely need and it’s not like Mercurial was an AI which always knew what you meant - anyone who ever tried to explain merge-queues to someone else knows that some concepts are just harder than others.

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Re:I (kind of) killed Mercurial at Mozilla by chx on Wednesday November 22, 2023 @01:50PM (#38383421)

No need for hard concepts.

I am talking of things like "opsie, I don't want to commit this yet" (git reset) and "destroy all my work" (git reset --hard) being a command line switch apart. That's just wrong. That's so wrong I keep git reset --hard safety net around, in fact. https://gist.github.com/chx/85db0ebed1e02ab14b1a65b6024dea29

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Re:I (kind of) killed Mercurial at Mozilla by acdha on Wednesday November 22, 2023 @08:58PM (#38388258)

Kind of like how “hg update” becomes “destroy all my work” with -C? At some point you do need to learn what things to be careful about. Git’s reflog will avoid most forms of data loss but uncommitted/staged changes are a harder problem than it might seem.

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