Moonside wrote on March 21, 2018 at 3:36 AM

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

flabberghaster wrote on March 21, 2018 at 4:26 AM

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.

Moonside wrote on March 21, 2018 at 7:19 AM

Facebook uses Mercurial because Git was too slow.

musou wrote on March 21, 2018 at 7:38 PM

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!

Moonside wrote on March 22, 2018 at 3:24 AM

Facebook wrote a blogpost on the topic, it's four years old by now though.

flabberghaster wrote on March 22, 2018 at 3:52 AM

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.