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Re:I struggled with Git, so I'm making a game to spare other... by convolvatron on Sunday March 02, 2025 @12:43PM (#43232908)
why? I had to stop using it because no one else would, and the various centralized services dropped support for it. but it handled branching and merging much better, was easier to pick up, and was less likely to trash your local checkout.

maybe if someone rewrote it in rust it would be sexy again? rurcurial?

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Re:I struggled with Git, so I'm making a game to spare other... by zabzonk on Sunday March 02, 2025 @03:37PM (#43234793)
I think the loss of the google and bitbucket repositories was the main problem - i know that took the heart out of me for doing foss development. i can deal with git (shit, i can deal with rcs), but i don't like it.
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Re:I struggled with Git, so I'm making a game to spare other... by BeetleB on Sunday March 02, 2025 @01:17PM (#43233274)
> maybe if someone rewrote it in rust it would be sexy again?

They have and it's called jujutsu :-)

https://github.com/jj-vcs/jj

OK, it's not a Mercurial clone, but it did take some features from it, and using it will feel more like Mercurial than git. And you can use it on git repositories, so you can have your cake and eat it too.

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Re:I struggled with Git, so I'm making a game to spare other... by DrinkyBird on Sunday March 02, 2025 @01:11PM (#43233215)
You jest, but… https://mercurial-scm.org/help/topics/rust#rhg
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