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Moonside wrote

My controversial opinion: what Git does is valuable enough, but the way everything works is super convoluted.

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flabberghaster wrote

i agree; git is good but for some reason people act like it's the only DVCS out there; I've always found mercurial to be easier to use and less convoluted and easier to learn.

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Moonside wrote

Facebook uses Mercurial because Git was too slow.

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musou wrote

huh that's interesting. i have used hg in the past and thought it was very easy to understand compared to git but moved to git because mercurial was too slow. i guess its speed has improved over the years, i'll have to give it another shot!

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flabberghaster wrote

mercurial is also a heck of a lot easier to write plugins and extensions for so it's much easier to hook it in to other, larger scale source control systems.

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