Re:Mercurial developer responds to "Switch to git?"
by qznc on Monday November 18, 2013 @02:19AM
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The reverse question is, what about Mercurials UI is better than gits with the appropriate aliases and wrapper scripts?
In both cases the answer is pretty much nothing.
Git is not optimized for the minority case, it is optimized for simple implementation. It basically leaks implementation details left and right. I believe git users come to like this, because the core model is so simple (for a computer scientist). Git internally is just snapshots of the code connected with prev-version edges forming a directed acyclic graph and then some named pointers into this DAG.
In both cases the answer is pretty much nothing.
Git is not optimized for the minority case, it is optimized for simple implementation. It basically leaks implementation details left and right. I believe git users come to like this, because the core model is so simple (for a computer scientist). Git internally is just snapshots of the code connected with prev-version edges forming a directed acyclic graph and then some named pointers into this DAG.