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r/GoodSoftware•
fschmidt

Mercurial

https://www.mercurial-scm.org/

Git is the worst source control system ever developed. Anyone who voluntarily uses Git deserves to be shot. Of course modern scum love Git, because modern scum love what is horrible and hate what is good. Mercurial is basically functionally equivalent to Git but is fairly good, so naturally modern scum overwhelmingly prefer Git to Mercurial. Good programmers (who reject modern software and modern culture) should use Mercurial.

A few links on the horrors of Git:

http://jordi.inversethought.com/blog/enough-git/

http://jordi.inversethought.com/blog/on-gitology/

https://stevebennett.me/2012/02/24/10-things-i-hate-about-git/

Posted Aug 21, 2019, 1:50 AM UTC

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erictheturtle•

I see Git won for 3 primary reasons

  1. Linus created it
  2. Elitist smug nerds who worshiped Linus thought they were so cool for learning Git, especially because it was hard, and scoffed at any naysayers because they were obviously too dumb to understand and should just git gud. This culture spread like wildfire. Git became a rite of passage.
  3. Github

Git objectively set software development back by many years.

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fschmidtOP•

Linus is a very mediocre programmer. I remember reading the Linux source when it came out.

Anyway, when was the last time that modern scum actually preferred a good product? Maybe Nginx, but that is only because of performance, not design. The general pattern seems clear, modern scum hate what is good and love what is bad.

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wygcGhostNappa•

What have you done that's more impressive or better than the Linux kernel?

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fschmidtOP•

I have done many projects rather than a few big projects. Luan is better than the Linux kernel.

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wygcGhostNappa•

I just read your page on Luan and I’m kind of confused. The Linux kernel is exceptionally well-documented. Luan is almost entirely undocumented. How can I know that your software is as good as or better than the Linux kernel without any documentation or tests?

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erictheturtle•

Egad, someone else who recognizes nginx for what it really is? Please, don't try to do anything remotely complicated with it. Your quality of life will only get worse.

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fschmidtOP•

I haven't read the Nginx source, so I am reluctant to judge it. But from what little I know, the internal design is sound. Yes the configuration isn't nice but thankfully I have a sysadmin to handle that. At least I can read the config files. We handle the lack of flexibility of the config files by dynamically generating them from Luan. I will make a thread about Nginx later.

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ruxven•

Years ago, my company selected mercurial over git because of tortoisehg (in contrast to whatever git had at the time, probably a collection of loosely maintained tools).

Fast forward to today, and I'm very glad we dodged that bullet. Named branches in mercurial do not disappear over time (but if you prefer that behavior for whatever reason, it has bookmarks that work pretty much like git branches).

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A_Plagiarize_Zest•

TortoiseGit is pretty easy once you get the terms down but I'll check out mercurial.

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Kered13•

TortoiseHg is completely different from TortoiseGit and much better. TortoiseHg is what version control should be (from a user perspective).

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fschmidtOP•

I prefer using the shell, but you can also look at:

https://www.mercurial-scm.org/wiki/TortoiseHg

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wpdeveloper11•

Mercurial and TortoiseHg are one of the best software I ever used.

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fschmidtOP•

But Bitbucket is bad and currently down.

https://bitbucket.status.atlassian.com/incidents/4t1pkwrdtl8b

I need another hosting service.

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wpdeveloper11•

Do you look at this page https://www.mercurial-scm.org/wiki/MercurialHosting ? Maybe you can find something.

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fschmidtOP•

Yes, thanks, I will look when I have time.

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