Ask HN: Google/FB engineers, Do you like Mercurial?

Re:Ask HN: Google/FB engineers, Do you like Mercurial? by sytse on Thursday May 07, 2015 @09:38AM (#9504919)

GitLab CEO here, in GitLab you can protect branches to not be rebased at all (web or command line), see https://about.gitlab.com/2014/11/26/keeping-your-code-protec...

I'm not aware that GitHub offers the same functionality.

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Re:Ask HN: Google/FB engineers, Do you like Mercurial? by c0wb0yc0d3r on Thursday May 07, 2015 @09:57AM (#9505037)

On the page where the ssh finger print is listed, can you list the RSA finger print too?

I am not well versed in working with git over ssh, but after following the instructions on GitLab to generate a key, then git would keep showing me the RSA finger print which doesn't match the one provided on the website. After looking around a bit, it looks like the one listed is ECDSA.

tl;dr: It was late. Finger prints didn't match. Only logical assumption was NSA. :P (Not really, obviously, but the finger prints could be more clear.)

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Re:Ask HN: Google/FB engineers, Do you like Mercurial? by sytse on Thursday May 07, 2015 @10:06AM (#9505111)

Thanks, fixed in https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/www-gitlab-com/commit/2493f208...

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Re:Ask HN: Google/FB engineers, Do you like Mercurial? by sytse on Friday May 08, 2015 @12:32PM (#9512591)

Also, we added all other keys: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/www-gitlab-com/commit/79bdb63f...

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Re:Ask HN: Google/FB engineers, Do you like Mercurial? by gcb0 on Tuesday May 12, 2015 @09:19PM (#9536127)

but you still damage your local copy and it's a pain to clean up, specially if you had local changes/commits

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Re:Ask HN: Google/FB engineers, Do you like Mercurial? by sytse on Wednesday May 13, 2015 @03:36AM (#9537368)

The idea is not to have upstream rebases so you can't pull them by accident.

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