Re:Jujutsu megamerges for fun and profit
by locknitpicker on Tuesday April 21, 2026 @02:16AM
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> That definitely includes mercurial etc.
People tried mercurial. They went back to git.
Some did, sure. I made a more limited claim: you can convert back and forth between mercurial and git.
Re:Jujutsu megamerges for fun and profit
by locknitpicker on Wednesday April 22, 2026 @12:00AM
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> Some did, sure.
Not some. I mean, even the few source code repository services that supported mercurial started dropping it.
See Bitbucket's announcement:
https://www.atlassian.com/blog/bitbucket/sunsetting-mercuria...
> According to a Stack Overflow Developer Survey, almost 90% of developers use Git, while Mercurial is the least popular version control system with only about 3% developer adoption. In fact, Mercurial usage on Bitbucket is steadily declining, and the percentage of new Bitbucket users choosing Mercurial has fallen to less than 1%.
I tried Sapling (Facebook's fork of mercurial with more polished git-compatibility layers) and never looked back for any of my own projects.
I recently started a new job where the vanilla git CLI is the only git frontend installed on company servers, and the regressions in user-experience are painful :(
Btw, the risk of trying out other modern version control systems is nearly as low: most of them are compatible with git and you can convert back and forth. That definitely includes mercurial etc.